How much does Starship weigh at launch?
5,000 tAbout 5,510 US tons · Giant
About 5,000 tonnes fully fuelled, the largest rocket ever flown.
That's about 59,000 big red kangaroos (85 kg each).
🚀5,000 t
☁️a cumulus cloud
By weight: Starship is about 10× heavier than a cumulus cloud.
Things about the same weight
- How much does the London Eye weigh?2,100 t
- How much water is in an Olympic swimming pool?2,500 t
- How much water goes over Niagara Falls each second?2,832 t
- How much did a Saturn V rocket weigh?2,970 t
- How much gold is mined in a year?3,600 t
- How much gold is in Fort Knox?4,582 t
- How much does the ATLAS detector at CERN weigh?7,000 t
- How much does the Eiffel Tower weigh?10,100 t
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