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SpaceX Ignites Super Heavy Rocket's 33 Engines for the First Time · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hi. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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  podcasted Daily News show about Elon musk's numerous companies
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  SpaceX Tesla, the boring company neurolink and everything else he
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  has going on in this life. So, please sit back, relax.
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  And let's talk about spacex's super heavy rocket right now.
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  Space exploration has been a one of Humanity's greatest
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  achievements and is pushed the limits of Science and
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  Technology. And over the years, we have seen
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  numerous missions to the Moon. And other celestial bodies, but
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  none have been as ambitious as SpaceX is plan to send humans to
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  the moon and one day to Mars, the company has been working
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  tirelessly to make this dream. A reality and has taken a
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  significant step forward with the ignition of all 33d main
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  engines on. It's super heavy rocket booster.
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  This marks a major milestone in the development of SpaceX is
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  reusable Starship rocket, which is intended to help power.
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  NASA's return to the moon. Now, no other rocket has ever
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  used. So many engines before making
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  this, a truly remarkable feat. The closest comparison is the
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  Soviet Union's N1 rocket, which had a first stage powered by 30
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  and K15 liquid-fueled engines. However, each one of those
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  engine was only about two-thirds, as powerful, as a
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  raptor to Rocket engines bolted, to the super heavy rocket.
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  That's worth noting that the N1 was also a massive failure.
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  And never reached orbit space ex-president Gwynne.
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  Shotwell spoke about the significance of the tested.
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  A commercial space conference in Washington, d.c. saying, keep in
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  mind. This first one is really a test
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  flight. The real goal is to not blow up
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  on the launch pad that is Success.
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  Now shotwell's words reflect the caution and the care that SpaceX
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  is taken in the development of its Starship and super heavy
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  rocket. The company was likely invested
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  more than 1 billion. In dollars in a massive launch
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  in catch Tower to support Starship and the super-heavy
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  booster as well as ground systems to support fueling of
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  the massive vehicles. And because so many assets are
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  clustered as small area near the Gulf of Mexico SpaceX can't
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  afford to take the risk of destroying infrastructure.
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  It is spent more than a year building and testing this would
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  set, the Starship launch campaign back months, at least
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  as the area's rebuilt and would also redouble regulatory
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  concerns that were raised as Part of the fááá's process to
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  clear the South Texas location for experimental orbital,
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  launches know, after a rapid fire test campaign in 2020, and
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  2021 of Starship prototype SpaceX has moved more cautiously
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  at its development and test facility in south.
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  Texas known as Starbase. This is because the company
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  wants to ensure that everything is working as it should be and
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  that there are no unexpected issues.
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  And the main goal of the test is to not blow up the launch pad
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  but SpaceX will The Gathering data about the performance of
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  the Raptor engines on the rocket and replacing those that show
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  deviations from any unexpected Behavior.
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  It around, 3:15 p.m. local time in South Texas SpaceX ignited
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  and super heavy rocket for a full duration.
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  Test of its Raptor engines. According to SpaceX founder,
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  Elon Musk. The launch Team turned off one
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  engine just prior to ignition still.
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  He said, 31 of 33 engines would have provided enough.
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  Thrust to reach orbit. This is a huge milestone for
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  SpaceX and potentially puts the company on track for an orbital
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  test flight, during the second half of March or possibly early
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  April, the thrust output of these engine was likely, nearly
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  double that of NASA's, Saturn, five rocket or the space launch
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  system. The good news for SpaceX is that
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  at least for early views, the launch of restructure and South
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  Texas. Look, mostly unscathed.
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  This is a testament to the His engineering expertise and the
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  attention to detail that it has put into the design and
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  construction of its launch infrastructure.
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  Super heavy rocket boosters designed to be fully reusable,
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  which is a major shift in the traditional Aerospace industry.
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  And in the past, most Rockets were used only once and then
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  discarded after their mission was complete.
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  This was because it was deemed too expensive and time-consuming
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  to recover and refurbish the rockets for reuse.
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  However SpaceX has In a different approach and is
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  working towards a future where reusable Rockets are the normal.
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  Now, reusable Rockets, have several benefits for starters,
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  they significantly reduce the cost of launching into space.
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  This is because the same rocket can be used.
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  Repeatedly reducing the need to build and launch new rockets for
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  each mission. In addition reusable, Rockets
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  reduce the amount of debris generated during launches, which
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  is crucial in maintaining a clean environment.
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  Overall, the admission of the 33 engines on SpaceX Super heavy
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  rocket is a huge milestone. In the development of the
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  company's, reusable Starship rocket.
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  The test is expected to provide valuable data, on the
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  performance of the engines and set SpaceX on a path towards its
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  first orbital launch attempt. The fact that SpaceX has
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  invested heavily in its launch infrastructure.
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  Making it imperative to avoid, any damage only as to the
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  significance of this test. Hey, if you're a fan of Elon
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  making headlines. In the billionaire, entrepreneur
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  to discuss his view count on the site, the report from platformer
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  sites, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting
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  which took place on Tuesday at according to these sources,
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  ridiculous. I have more than 100 million
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  Impressions. Now the Twitter engineer show
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  deal on internal data and Google Trends charts which indicated
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  data, showed that his popularity peaked at a score of about 100
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  and April are on the time he offered to buy Twitter and Has
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  since dropped to a 9. When one of the engineers said
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  that his popularity might be declining due to a lack of
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  public interest. Since his Twitter purchase Elon
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  fired according to platformer. Now, the billionaire also told
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  some employees to track how often is tweets are recommended
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  on the site as he was unconvinced by the meeting.
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  That is view. Count had not been impacted by
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  an internal issue with Twitter. However, both Elon Musk and a
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  spokesperson for Twitter. Did not respond to requests for.
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  Comment last week Ilan temporarily set his Twitter
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  profile to private as a test to see if it can increase the view,
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  counts on his tweets, Twitter hit added a public view, count
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  to users Tweets in December and on Wednesday, Twitter suffered,
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  an outage leaving several users. Unable to send tweets or direct
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  messages after the company. Attempted to roll out several
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  new features. And as reported by insiders,
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  Keeley, Hayes, the social media site could face some hiccups in
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  the coming months, after the company laid off, thousands of
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  employees, It's not the first time that Elon is fired
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  employees. On the spot though, only a few
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  weeks after he took Twitter private, took control of the
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  company. He fired three Twitter employees
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  who criticized him on social media.
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  These recent events highlight elon's concerns, with his
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  declining popularity and Twitter.
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  It is efforts to maintain his reach and his influence on the
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  platform. This is also a signal that Elon
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  Musk wants to make Twitter a better place for everybody in
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  wants to iron out. All the bugs in the platform.
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