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The Starship Human Landing System program includes the development and operational use of several Starship spacecraft variants by SpaceX, including the Starship HLS ship—optimized to operate on and in the vicinity of the Moon—as well as a Starship depot that will store propellant in Earth orbit, and the Starship tanker designed to fly multiple trips to orbit from Earth's surface to ...
SpaceX completed many static fire tests on a vehicle using Raptor 2s, including a 31 engine test (intended to be 33) on 9 February 2023, [59] and a 33 engine test on 25 August 2023. [60] During testing, more than 50 chambers melted, and more than 20 engines exploded. [31] SpaceX completed its first integrated flight test of Starship on 20 April ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship performed another spectacular launch during Tuesday’s test flight, ... having its Raptor engines reignite while in space — a first for SpaceX. ... SpaceX has had ...
On July 11, after returning to OLM A for engine testing, B7 experienced a detonation underneath the engines during an attempted 33-engine spin prime test. [31] It returned to OLM A on August 4 with only the 20 outer Raptor engines, [ 32 ] and completed its first single-engine static fire test on August 9, followed by a second two days later. [ 33 ]
SpaceX CEO celebrated the first test firing of a full-scale, built-for-flight Raptor engine for his Starship super-rocket in the usual way tonight: by tweeting about it. "So proud of great work by ...
The gargantuan rocket blasted off from SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight test facility on the Gulf Coast at 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time, firing up 33 methane-burning Raptor engines ...
Starship flight test 3 was the third flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on March 14, 2024. [2] [3] Starship successfully completed a full-duration second stage burn, reaching the intended orbital velocity for the first time, but broke up during re-entry in the atmosphere. [3] [4] [5]
The rocket's third test flight in March made it much farther but broke apart during atmospheric reentry some 64 km (40 miles) over the Indian Ocean. On Thursday, Starship appeared to have overcome ...