SpaceX destacks Starship to prep for epic 33-engine test fire (photos)

[Admin]

SpaceX destacked its Starship Mars rocket on Wednesday (Jan. 25) to continue gearing up for the giant vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight.

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[Hardcrunchyscience]

SpaceX destacked its Starship Mars rocket on Wednesday (Jan. 25) to continue gearing up for the giant vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight.

SpaceX destacks Starship to prep for epic 33-engine test fire (photos) : Read more

You may want to reserve the word "epic" for the first flight, or better yet, the first day elon launches 10 of them in a day.

 

[Torbjorn Larsson]

No, it will already be epic. In the sense that a 33-engine test fire will fire a rocket twice as powerful as systems that successfully reached orbit (so N1 and its siblings doesn't count).

There are other senses so, yes, launching that transport system will be epic too. But there is also refueling in orbit if SpaceX wants to go away from Earth. And reentry as well as catching it, and as you say remaining elements of rapid reuse, to make it successful by SpaceX internal standards of mass transport away from Earth.