SpaceX recently test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship giant rocket again, this time to practice space engine combustion.
Company fires all six of Flight 7’s planes starship spacecraft raptor engine about 10 seconds The company conducted tests on a test bed at its Starbase facility in South Texas on Sunday (December 15).
SpaceX announces important pre-launch tests via X same day. Today (December 17), the company revealed in another X post that it had conducted another electrostatic ignition using the same vehicle – a completely different kind of trial.
“Single-engine static fire demonstrates flight-like combustion initiation in space,” SpaceX wrote in the article. postwhich contains two burning videos that are nearly two minutes long.
The company also conducted static ignition of Flight 7’s Super Heavy first-stage booster, testing 33 engines. Last week at Starbase.
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SpaceX is developing Starship to help humans colonize the moon Marsand perform various other aerospace tasks (such as completing the assembly of its components) Starlink Broadband megaconstellation).
This fully reusable stainless steel rocket is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built; the Starships stand approximately 400 feet (122 meters) tall when stacked.
So far, Starship has conducted six test flights in April and November of 2023 and in March, June, October and November of this year. Vehicle performance is very good; for example, on the last three flights, both stages successfully entered space and survived the return journey. Earth’s atmosphere All in one piece.
SpaceX has not announced a target launch date for Flight 7, but an email from NASA to the Federal Aviation Administration indicates that the company Focus on January 11th. (NASA intends to use Gulfstream V-jet aircraft to observe the upcoming flights, according to the email.)