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SpaceX just set up his latest spaceship spaceship on Thursday (July 31) to prepare the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.
The company carried out a “static fire” process on Thursday with the 171-footbal-all sub-stage (52 meters) at the Starbase location in South Texas and briefly inflamed one of the six raptor engines of the vehicle.
“State-State-State Fire, which shows an in-room burning on Pad 1 in Starbase,” wrote SpaceX in a post on Thursday evening, in which two photos and a video of the milestone took part.
On July 31, 2025, SpaceX conducts a static fire test with an upper start stage in his Starbase location in South Texas. | Credit: SpaceX over X
The test is part of the preparatory work for Flight 10 of the spaceship, the huge, fully reusable rocket, which SpaceX develops to help humanity colonize Mars and to do a variety of other space flight work.
Starship consists of two elements of the spaceship in the upper stadium, which is referred to as a spaceship or simply ship, and a huge booster that is known as a great heavy. Both are made of stainless steel and are driven by raptors (33 of them in Super Heavy’s case).
This special ship is the second that SpaceX has provided for flight 10. The first exploded on a test stand at Starbase on June 18, shortly before a planned static fire test.
The super heavy man who will fly on flight 10 has already passed its static fire test and lit up all 33 engines on June 6th.
A close -up supervision of the static fire fire on July 31, which shows the Starbase water flood system in action. | Credit: SpaceX over X
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– SpaceXs Starship explodes in Texas during preparations for the 10th test flight
– SpaceX reached space with Starship Flight 9 Start and then lost control of the huge spaceship (video)
– Spaceship and Super Heavy explained
SpaceX has not yet announced the target date for flight 10, but we may not have to wait long: The founder and CEO of the company, Elon Musk, said the test mission will start in August.
A fully stacked starship flew in April 2023 for the first time. The huge rocket started three times this year, January, March and May. SpaceX lost the upper stage on all three flights before the planned Indian ocean injects.
