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SpaceX is set to launch its record-breaking, ultra-powerful Starship 3 mega-rocket in a high-stakes test vital to NASA's 2028 Moon landing mission.
SpaceX will launch the first Starship Version 3 rocket with upgraded Raptor 3 engines on May 19.
KEY POINTS
- The Super Heavy booster's grid fins have been reduced to three but increased in size by 50 percent.
- Starship Version 3 features a larger fuel tank and new in-orbit refuelling hardware.
- Starship 3's engines produce more power at peak than Germany's entire electrical grid.
- A NASA document reveals Artemis astronauts must dock with one or both lunar landers in orbit.
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