Launches & rockets · first seen 16 Aug, updated 16 Aug
Starship’s 33 engines push down with 74,400 kilonewtons at liftoff — roughly twice the force of the Saturn V that sent humans to the Moon, yet the whole vehicle is designed to be caught like a falling pencil and flown again the next day
SpaceX's bet is that catching and reusing a 5,000-tonne rocket is cheaper than building a new one, and the engineering challenges of making that work may matter far more than raw horsepower. The post Starship’s 33 engines push down with 74,…
Summary from SpaceDaily.