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