Super Heavy 2

 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

A Super Heavy booster is on the launch pad right now at Starbase (near Boca Chica, Texas). This prototype was built only to be ground-tested.

But the next Super Heavy booster will fly. It will launch the spacecraft Starship into orbit, then descend back to earth and land. Standing 230 feet tall, it's the first stage of SpaceX's fully reusable transportation system for space travel which was "designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry in excess of 100 metric tonnes to Earth orbit.

Starship itself is 165 feet, so the two stages combined will be nearly 400 feet tall. It will surpass the 363-foot Saturn V, which flew NASA astronauts to the moon in 1969.

Note: Confusingly, "Starship" can refer to just the first stage spacecraft launched on top of the Super Heavy booster rocket, or to the combined two-stage transport system.

from Space