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Elon Musk's SpaceX released out-of-this-world photos of its Starship’s third launch rehearsal as the company attempts to send the world’s biggest rocket into space this month.

The Starship and its Super Heavy booster were filled with more than 10 million pounds of propellent including liquid methane and liquid oxygen.

The massive rocket stands 395 feet tall and has 33 Raptor engines that emit 17 million pounds of thrust – the force exerted by the rocket that causes it to blast off. 

However, the world's most powerful rocket will remain grounded until the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completes its mishap investigation that was opened when a previous Starship took off and exploded mid-air in November.

The force Starship releases at launch is almost doubled Saturn V that was the most powerful rocket in NASA’s space launch arsenal until Elon Musk came on the scene.

Musk has previously estimated the total development cost of the Starship project to be between $2 billion and $10 billion. 

SpaceX’s photos of its rehearsal for launch show the rocket billowing smoke from all angles as it reached the T-10-second countdown.

Musk hopes to fully launch the Starship at least nine times this year with the intention of eventually carrying humans to Mars.

The company has had trouble getting FAA approval after its two failed launches, the first of which ended in an explosion over the Gulf of Mexico in April of last year.

It was supposed to travel 90 miles above ground for 90 minutes, but shortly after the Super Heavy booster detached, Starship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas about four minutes into the mission.

After the explosion, SpaceX posted on X: ‘With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and today’s test will help us improve Starship’s reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary.’