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Space exploration has been a one of Humanity's greatest achievements and is pushed the limits of Science and Technology. And over the years, we have seen numerous missions to the Moon. And other celestial bodies, but none have been as ambitious as SpaceX is plan to send humans to the moon and one day to Mars, the company has been working
tirelessly to make this dream. A reality and has taken a significant step forward with the ignition of all 33d main engines on. It's super heavy rocket booster. This marks a major milestone in the development of SpaceX is reusable Starship rocket, which is intended to help power. NASA's return to the moon. Now, no other rocket has ever used. So many engines before making
this, a truly remarkable feat. The closest comparison is the Soviet Union's N1 rocket, which had a first stage powered by 30 and K15 liquid-fueled engines. However, each one of those engine was only about two-thirds, as powerful, as a raptor to Rocket engines bolted, to the super heavy rocket. That's worth noting that the N1 was also a massive failure. And never reached orbit space ex-president Gwynne. Shotwell spoke about the significance of the tested.
A commercial space conference in Washington, d.c. saying, keep in mind. This first one is really a test flight. The real goal is to not blow up on the launch pad that is Success. Now shotwell's words reflect the caution and the care that SpaceX is taken in the development of its Starship and super heavy rocket. The company was likely invested
more than 1 billion. In dollars in a massive launch in catch Tower to support Starship and the super-heavy booster as well as ground systems to support fueling of the massive vehicles. And because so many assets are clustered as small area near the Gulf of Mexico SpaceX can't afford to take the risk of destroying infrastructure.
It is spent more than a year building and testing this would set, the Starship launch campaign back months, at least as the area's rebuilt and would also redouble regulatory concerns that were raised as Part of the fááá's process to clear the South Texas location for experimental orbital, launches know, after a rapid fire test campaign in 2020, and 2021 of Starship prototype SpaceX has moved more cautiously at its development and test facility in south.
Texas known as Starbase. This is because the company wants to ensure that everything is working as it should be and that there are no unexpected issues. And the main goal of the test is to not blow up the launch pad but SpaceX will The Gathering data about the performance of the Raptor engines on the rocket and replacing those that show deviations from any unexpected Behavior. It around, 3:15 p.m. local time in South Texas SpaceX ignited and super heavy rocket for a full duration.
Test of its Raptor engines. According to SpaceX founder, Elon Musk. The launch Team turned off one engine just prior to ignition still. He said, 31 of 33 engines would have provided enough. Thrust to reach orbit. This is a huge milestone for SpaceX and potentially puts the company on track for an orbital test flight, during the second half of March or possibly early April, the thrust output of these engine was likely, nearly double that of NASA's, Saturn, five rocket or the space launch
system. The good news for SpaceX is that at least for early views, the launch of restructure and South Texas. Look, mostly unscathed. This is a testament to the His engineering expertise and the attention to detail that it has put into the design and construction of its launch infrastructure. Super heavy rocket boosters designed to be fully reusable, which is a major shift in the traditional Aerospace industry.
And in the past, most Rockets were used only once and then discarded after their mission was complete. This was because it was deemed too expensive and time-consuming to recover and refurbish the rockets for reuse. However SpaceX has In a different approach and is working towards a future where reusable Rockets are the normal. Now, reusable Rockets, have several benefits for starters, they significantly reduce the cost of launching into space.
This is because the same rocket can be used. Repeatedly reducing the need to build and launch new rockets for each mission. In addition reusable, Rockets reduce the amount of debris generated during launches, which is crucial in maintaining a clean environment. Overall, the admission of the 33 engines on SpaceX Super heavy rocket is a huge milestone. In the development of the company's, reusable Starship rocket.
The test is expected to provide valuable data, on the performance of the engines and set SpaceX on a path towards its first orbital launch attempt. The fact that SpaceX has invested heavily in its launch infrastructure. Making it imperative to avoid, any damage only as to the significance of this test. Hey, if you're a fan of Elon Musk, please take a second and hit the Subscribe button on
whatever. Cast platform that you're on now because we deliver news to you about Elon and all of his companies on a daily basis throughout the week so thank you for subscribing to the show. Now let's get back to some more Elon Musk news. Now, Elon Musk is no stranger to making headlines. In the billionaire, entrepreneur has been in the news for his work. With companies like Tesla SpaceX and neurolink recently.
However, in recent months his popularity on Twitter, one of his favorite platforms for reaching out to the public, his
been on the decline. And according to a recent report from the tech newsletter platformer, this has caused some frustration for musk, who met with several Twitter Engineers to discuss his view count on the site, the report from platformer sites, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting which took place on Tuesday at according to these sources, Ilan, was not happy with the downward Trend. It is view count on Twitter and had previously assigned workers
to investigate this issue. Ilan, had suspicions that his reach on the platform was being restricted due to a potential problem with Twitter's algorithm, he said, this is
ridiculous. I have more than 100 million followers and I'm only getting tens of thousands of Impressions. Now the Twitter engineer show deal on internal data and Google Trends charts which indicated that public interest in him as waning in the Google Trends data, showed that his popularity peaked at a score of about 100 and April are on the time he offered to buy Twitter and Has since dropped to a 9. When one of the engineers said that his popularity might be declining due to a lack of
public interest. Since his Twitter purchase Elon Musk. Told the employee that he was fired according to platformer. Now, the billionaire also told some employees to track how often is tweets are recommended on the site as he was unconvinced by the meeting. That is view. Count had not been impacted by an internal issue with Twitter. However, both Elon Musk and a spokesperson for Twitter. Did not respond to requests for.
Comment last week Ilan temporarily set his Twitter profile to private as a test to see if it can increase the view, counts on his tweets, Twitter hit added a public view, count to users Tweets in December and on Wednesday, Twitter suffered, an outage leaving several users. Unable to send tweets or direct messages after the company. Attempted to roll out several
new features. And as reported by insiders, Keeley, Hayes, the social media site could face some hiccups in the coming months, after the company laid off, thousands of employees, It's not the first time that Elon is fired employees. On the spot though, only a few weeks after he took Twitter private, took control of the company. He fired three Twitter employees who criticized him on social media. These recent events highlight elon's concerns, with his declining popularity and Twitter.
It is efforts to maintain his reach and his influence on the platform. This is also a signal that Elon Musk wants to make Twitter a better place for everybody in wants to iron out. All the bugs in the platform. ERM before moving forward with his ambitious plans to make it an everything at thanks for listening to the Elon Musk podcast today. Again, my name is Will Walden.
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