Rumors suggest that the crucial trial is targeted for late afternoon.
and beyond. The stainless-steel vehicle consists of two elements, both of which are designed to be reusable: A huge first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall upper stage known as Starship.
Super Heavy is powered by 33 of SpaceX's next-generation Raptor engines, and Starship features six of them. The company is gearing up for the first-ever Starship orbital test flight, which will involve the Booster 7 Super Heavy prototype and an upper-stage variant called Ship 24. Those preparations include static fires with both craft, in which their engines are briefly ignited while the vehicles remained anchored to the ground. Ship 24 has already fired up all six of its engines, but today's test will break new ground for Booster 7: The vehicle has never ignited more than
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