[…] Powered uphill by the Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines—with a thrust reportedly reaching 16.7 million pounds (7.5 million kilograms)—the vehicle stands to enter the record books as the most powerful rocket ever orbited, with a liftoff impulse more than twice as great as the Saturn V and almost twice as great as NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). And standing 394 feet (120 meters) when fully stacked, it will also be the tallest, almost 10 percent higher than the Saturn V and 25 percent taller than the Block I SLS which lofted Artemis I on its historic around-the-Moon mission late last year. […]
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