SpaceX is already gearing up for the following flight of its Starship megarocket, only a week and a half after the newest one left the bottom.
The corporate carried out a long-duration “static fireplace” check with Tremendous Heavy, Starship‘s big first-stage booster, at its Starbase web site in South Texas on Friday (June 6).
All 33 of Tremendous Heavy’s Raptor engines lit up in the course of the trial, SpaceX stated in a Friday X put up that shared a photograph and two quick movies of the motion.
The check was a part of the preparations for Starship’s subsequent launch, based on the X put up. That flight would be the tenth up to now of a totally stacked Starship — a Tremendous Heavy topped with an higher stage referred to as Starship, or Ship for brief.
Starship Flight 9 lifted off from Starbase simply final week, on Might 27. It was a landmark launch — the primary ever that featured a used Tremendous Heavy. That booster first flew on Flight 7 in January; on that mission, it got here again to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower’s “chopstick” arms.
There was no such try on Flight 9; SpaceX carried out quite a lot of experiments with Tremendous Heavy on Might 27 and determined to convey it down for a tough splashdown within the Gulf of Mexico for security’s sake.
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