Watch Elon Musk's SpaceX test the most powerful rocket system ever built
SpaceX's Super Heavy booster on the launchpad at the Starbase facility. Elon Musk said 31 out of 33 engines fired.Elon Musk's SpaceX fired up 33 engines on its Super Heavy booster for its Starship system.The static fire takes SpaceX one step closer to launching Starship into orbit for the first time.
SpaceX, Elon Musk's aerospace firm, on Thursday conducted a static test fire of the rocket booster of its massive Starship system. The test fire takes SpaceX one step closer to launching Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever built, into orbit for the first time. Musk eventually wants Starship to take humanity to Mars.RGV Aerial Photography
The Super Heavy booster, designed to heave the Starship rocket into orbit, was strapped to framework on a launch pad at the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Starship wasn't attached to the booster for the static fire.—SpaceX The engines started to blast at around 4:14 p.m. ET. The firing only lasted for a few seconds, according to SpaceX's livestream.SpaceX livestream
"Team turned off 1 engine just before start & 1 stopped itself, so 31 engines fired overall. But still enough engines to reach orbit!" Musk tweeted after the test.SpaceX said in a tweet the engines fired for the "full duration," meaning they lasted for the correct amount of time.Musk said on Saturday that Starship could launch next month "if remaining tests go well.
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