Humans for scale! It’s easy to forget how massive #Starship is!!!
Elon Musk’s Starship, developed by SpaceX, is an extremely massive spacecraft designed for interplanetary travel, including missions to Mars. The Starship system consists of two main parts: the Starship spacecraft (the upper stage) and the Super Heavy booster (the first stage).
Here are the key figures for the mass and size of Starship:
- Starship (Spacecraft):
- Height: 50 meters (164 feet)
- Diameter: 9 meters (30 feet)
- Mass: Approximately 1,200 tons (fully loaded with fuel)
- Super Heavy Booster:
- Height: 69 meters (226 feet)
- Diameter: 9 meters (30 feet)
- Mass: Around 3,400 tons (fully fueled)
Combined, the total mass of the Starship system (Starship spacecraft + Super Heavy booster) can reach around 5,600 tons when fully fueled, making it one of the largest and most powerful rockets ever built.
This colossal size and mass allow Starship to carry large payloads and potentially hundreds of passengers for long-duration space missions.
