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SpaceX Starship: Watch triple-engine spaceship fire for first time – Inverse
The SpaceX Starship has completed its next major test, with a static test fire that shakes to the core.
The Starship, SpaceX’s under-construction spaceship, has completed its first triple-engine static test fire.
At the Boca Chica facility in Texas early Tuesday morning, Starship prototype “SN8” shook the ground as its three Raptor engines fired without launching the rocket.
This kind of test is one of the last typically done before a rocket flies. It is the first time that a Starship prototype has fired three engines as the same time, and it could be one of the last hurdles before the ship lau…
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