No Deflagration This Time, Starship Survives His Firing Test
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A few hours ago SpaceX has carried out a second static ignition of the next Starship to launch, the S37. It has been a test of the six Raptor engines that will have to put it on a quasi-orbital path. Everything has developed smoothly. It comes just a day after a first static ignition of that Starship in which only one of the Raptor was launched. That was a test of the on-orbit ignition that you will have to do when the Starship launch orbits so …
After a first static firing of a single engine on July 31, SpaceX carried out a second ignition of the upper stage of the Starship rocket, this time with all the engines. And no explosion took place, unlike the previous one. Is this a good augurs for the next one? In any case, the second one
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