Five things to watch for when Starship takes off Saturday morning
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SpaceX fans turned out at Starbase, the company's sprawling test facility in South Texas, on the eve of the second full-scale test flight of the Starship rocket.
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The nearly Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket reach toward the heavens Friday night, about 12 hours before their scheduled launch.
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SpaceX's Starship launch pad includes a support tower, an elevated launch mount, and a tank farm for methane, liquid oxygen, and water.
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The fully integrated Super Heavy booster stands approximately 397 feet (121 meters) tall and measures about 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter. That is larger than the fuselage of the Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial passenger airplane.
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The Moon passes behind the top of Starship.
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Early Saturday morning, SpaceX will load more than 10 million pounds ...
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