SpaceX moves Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of 4th Starship flight (photos)

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Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.

A Starship Super Heavy booster stands on the orbital launch mount at Starbase, SpaceX's South Texas site. The company posted this photo on X on April 4, 2024.first stage, a 33-engine booster called Super Heavy, to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas. also shared two photos of the giant, stainless-steel booster clutched by the"chopstick" arms of the tower at Starbase's orbital launch mount.

Starship's two stages failed to separate as planned on its debut mission, and SpaceX detonated the vehicle intentionally after just four minutes. The, however, lasted nearly 50 minutes.

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