10 Facts About The World's Biggest Rocket That Exploded During Test Flight

Starship is a fully reusable transportation system that is designed to carry both - humans and cargo to Earth orbit, the moon, and beyond.

Starship is the world's most powerful launch vehicle that is capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes of reusable fuel.

Starship is capable of carrying crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond and is capable of point-to-point transport to Earth, enabling travel to anywhere in the world in one hour or less.

Starship is capable of carrying up to 100 people on long-duration, interplanetary flights, which will help in satellite delivery.

The liftoff of Starship was postponed by 48 hours on Monday, just minutes before the scheduled launch time due to a pressurization issue in the booster stage.

NASA has picked up Starship to ferry humans to the Moon in late 2025 for the Artemis III mission, the first moon mission since the Apollo program ended in 1972.

The lower-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship vessel are designed to be used as reusable components to perform reentry to Earth for soft landings.

If the test flight had been successful, the Super Heavy booster would have executed the beginnings of a controlled return flight before plunging into the Gulf of Mexico.

Elon Musk's Starship is designed to be two times more powerful than NASA's own Space Launch System (SLS) which made its debut uncrewed flight to orbit in November last year.

If the test flight had been successful, the Starship and the Super Heavy, a booster of the Starship launch system, would've been a key milestone in Elon Musk's SpaceX's ambition to send humans back then and to Mars.