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SpaceX’s Starship SN9 prototype fires engines again to prep for test flight – Space.com
The high-altitude hop could come as early as Monday (Jan. 25).
SpaceX’s latest Starship
prototype may now be cleared for takeoff.
The Starship SN9 vehicle
performed its fifth static fire test Friday morning (Jan. 22), briefly lighting its three Raptor engines at 9:59 a.m. EST (1459 GMT) while remaining firmly on the ground at SpaceX’s South Texas facility, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica.
Static fires are common preflight checkouts for SpaceX rockets, and SN9 might now have checked enough boxes to launch on a high-altitude test mission in the coming…
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