Why SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket looks unlike anything the company has ever built before

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 18:26

SpaceX Super Heavy first-stage booster with the black side of its Starship second stage booster showing. — SpaceX's starship is designed to be the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built.
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SpaceX's Starship rocket is predominantly silver instead of the conventional white.
The silver color comes from noncorrosive stainless steel that SpaceX used to build the rocket.
Starship is also studded with black, hexagonal tiles to help protect it upon atmospheric re-entry.

Earlier today, nestled on the very southern tip of Texas, near the small village of Boca Chica, sat a not-so-small space rocket: SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket.