Saudi officials are expected to claim that the mission was initiated to interrogate Khashoggi.

Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now The 30-foot-wide Super Heavy-Starship is the largest.most powerful rocket ever built.

standing 397 feet tall and tipping the scales at more than 11 million pounds when fully fueled.The Starship should separate from the Super Heavy moments later and continue the climb to space.it will carry out rocket firings to slow down as if it was heading for a landing pad.

SpaceX The (launch) license applies to all phases of the proposed operation.The goal of the flight is to send the Starship on a looping trajectory around the planet before re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii.

but no recovery is planned for this initial test flight.

which is spending billions for a variant of the Starship upper stage to carry Artemis astronauts from lunar orbit down to the surface of the moon.Sensors aboard NASAs Operation IceBridge airplane can measure the sea bed.

It can seem like flying across the surface of a distant.CBS News For a decade this time of year.

the Antarctic ice sheet is discharging more than two Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of ice into the ocean every second.but coastal countries around the world.