The American aerospace company SpaceX continues preparations for the launch of the Starship spacecraft.
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In the middle of the month, SpaceX conducted a statictesting 14 Raptor engines at once, which was a big step forward on the way to the first Starship orbital flight in history. The new test took place on November 29 in Texas. It only lasted 13 seconds. Only a third of the Booster 7 first stage engines took part in the static fire test - 11 out of 33.
Booster 7 completed a long-duration static fire test of 11 Raptor 2 engines on the orbital launch pad at Starbase pic.twitter.com/fFnKR00XNo
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 29, 2022
Super Heavy will become the most powerful rocket in the world,if he can successfully make an orbital flight. Now this title belongs to the lunar rocket Space Launch System (SLS). Two weeks ago, she launched the Orion spacecraft into space, which passed half of the Artemis I mission and already tomorrow, December 1, will begin to move towards the Earth.
Starship will be used in the futurefor flights to Mars, but for now he would at least climb into orbit. Elon Musk believes SpaceX will be able to launch Super Heavy from Starship before the end of the year.