SPACEX PREPARING "STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY"

SPACEX PREPARING "STARSHIP SUPER HEAVY"
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX-the space exploration company that manufactures and provides space transportation services, founded the company with the goal of revolutionizing space technology, and making life multiplanetary. Elon Musk has said on multiple occasions that he wants to make space flight cheaper and quicker. And SpaceX's Starship has been designed to serve exactly that purpose.
Musk originally unveiled SpaceX's plans for what would eventually become its Starship program in 2016. Since then the company has built and sometimes destroyed several of its prototypes.
With the height of 120m SpaceX's Starship has two components: a Starship spacecraft and a Super Heavy rocket known as Booster, collectively these are referred to as Starship. At the rear of the craft there are six efficient Raptor engines, developed over the course of a decade. Towards the middle of the vehicle are propellant tanks which feed liquid methane and liquid oxygen to raptors. On the upper stage, that is the front of the spacecraft, lies the huge payload compartment. We'll talk more about it later on. Rocket, the Super Heavy, is powered by 32 Raptor engines and is filled with 3400 tonnes of cryogenic or chilled methalox. It is more powerful than the Saturn V launcher used for the Apollo Moon missions.
Starship represents a fully reusable transportation system that is designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond.
But what does it mean that the system is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable? Being fully reusable means that unlike other launch systems, Starship's principal hardware elements are not discarded in the sea or allowed to burn up, but return to the ground to be used and flown again. Rapid reusability means that once the Starship comes back to Earth after flight, it can be refilled with propellant and be ready to launch again just like aircrafts. This reduces the cost of the flight.
Let us briefly take a look at how this is supposed to work. As the Starship moves towards the intended orbit, its upper stage separates in space. Once this separation happens, the Super Heavy flips over, falling back towards Earth. And as it descends, the rocket will deploy "grid fins" these are steel structures protruding from the sides of the booster, meant to steer the rocket back towards its launch pad. The launch tower, dubbed Mechazilla, will then catch the falling booster using a pair of its steel arms extending out from the tower.

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