🚀 SpaceX landed a 25-story building between two arms on the launch tower

Since they crashed into the sea after delivering a satellite or spacecraft to space, rockets were only used once. A few years ago, SpaceX managed to land a rocket for the first time.

Now the record is 23 launches and landings for a single rocket.

The time between landing and reuse has become shorter, but the goal is to be able to launch the same rocket with a new payload within a few hours. Similar to how airplanes land, refuel, and take off again.

It's important to get the rocket back to the same place it launched from. Otherwise, it needs to be transported on a barge at sea or from a landing site on land, which takes time and costs money.

That's why yesterday SpaceX tested landing their new giant rocket – the most powerful ever built – on two arms on the launch tower it lifted off from just minutes earlier.

The first stage of the rocket, the one that landed at the launch tower, is about 70 meters tall, equivalent to a 25-story building.

Read more about SpaceX's new rocket, Starship, and its potential impact on all of humanity. Quickly reusing rockets makes access to space much cheaper, allowing us to do more and more exciting things there. Like establishing a base on the moon and traveling to Mars.

🚀 Starship will have a major impact, even in the short-term

In the short term, Starship will reduce the cost of sending a kilo to space to two to three percent of what it was a few years ago.

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Mathias Sundin
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