SpaceX Nails It on Starship Testflight

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SpaceX just took one big step toward getting humans back to Luna, and Elon Musk just took one small step toward establishing a human colony on Mars.

Thursday morning’s test of Starship, the most powerful rocket to ever fly, flew further and fulfilled more objectives than the first two test flights, conducted in 2023.

At launch, all 33 (!!!) of the Super Heavy’s Raptor engines lit and stayed that way as planned. The second stage — Starship — lit off its six engines as planned and then completed a successful hot staging before it separated and entered orbit.

Here’s what else went right.

Today SpaceX achieved the first-ever Raptor engine relight in space. I’m no rocket scientist (really!), but my understanding is that engines needing the ability to be shut on and off in a vacuum have different requirements from those that don’t. Proving the vacuum-rated Raptor works as designed is a big deal.

SpaceX Nails It on Starship Testflight

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