The Federal Aviation Administration — which licenses commercial rocket launches — is overseeing ... The Starship craft will ignite its own engines, continuing on a suborbital trajectory.
The most powerful part of any Saturn ... 1/7 as much as the first stage). These engines burned for a total of 6 minutes, propelling the remaining rocket stages to an altitude of 109 miles.
Capturing a close-up of the world’s most powerful rocket from this angle ... when it was blasted by the Starship’s rocket engines on its maiden launch in April 2023. For the second flight ...
It was the second consecutive test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built where the upper-stage spacecraft malfunctioned. It started spinning out of control after several engines went out ...