Watch | Elon Musk’s SpaceX prepares Starship for 5th test flight
- by The Indian Express
- Jul 31, 2024
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Updated: July 31, 2024 23:21 IST
Follow Us Visuals of the static fire of Flight 5 Starship. (X/@SpaceX)
As its fifth test flight nears, SpaceX on Friday (July 26) ignited the engines of its Starship spacecraft.
With the test flight likely to be just weeks away, static fires were ignited with the 165-foot-tall Starship upper stage at the Starbase facility near South Texas’ Brownsville. Static fires refer to the brief ignition of engines as the vehicle remains anchored to a launch or test pad. Common to pre-launch trials, the static fires add weight to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk’s July 5 statement that the Starship will fly again “in four weeks”.
Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, standing nearly 400 feet tall when fully stacked. Its two stages — the spacecraft Starship, and the booster called Super Heavy — are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.
Slow motion view of Flight 5 Starship’s six Raptor engines during static fire pic.twitter.com/5395Vmq2j4
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