SpaceX fires up Starship SN20 prototype in key 6-engine test

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SpaceX fires up Starship SN20 prototype in key 6-engine test

Post by Dragon Sat Nov 13, 2021 1:11 am

SpaceX continues to prep its latest Starship prototype for a landmark orbital test flight.

The Starship SN20 vehicle ignited all six of its Raptor engines in a brief "static fire" test today (Nov. 12) at Starbase, SpaceX's facility near the South Texas village of Boca Chica.

"Good static fire with all six engines!" SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted shortly after the test, which took place at 1:13 p.m. EST (1813 GMT; 12:13 p.m. local Texas time).

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Re: SpaceX fires up Starship SN20 prototype in key 6-engine test

Post by Dragon Sat Nov 13, 2021 1:14 am

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(Image credit: Spadre.com)

SpaceX's Starship SN20 prototype performs a six-engine static fire test in South Texas on Nov. 12, 2021, in this screenshot from a video captured by SPadre.com.

SpaceX is developing Starship to take people and cargo the moon, Mars and other distant destinations.

The system consists of two fully reusable elements: a giant first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall (50 meters) spacecraft known as Starship.

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