On Tuesday, June 27, the American company SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the engines before the second launch of the Starship space rocket system.
As reported by Ukrinform, this was reported by Space.com.
Testing of all six Raptor engines was conducted at 03:27 Kiev time at the company’s Starbase spaceport in South Texas.
Recently, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk suggested that the launch of the Starship rocket ship could take place in about six weeks.
During this flight, it was noted that a prototype of the first stage of the booster rocket, called Booster 9, would send the spacecraft from Star Base.
As Ukrinform reported, the American company SpaceX conducted a test launch of the Starship rocket system on Thursday, April 20, but the rocket exploded in the air due to an emergency.
Photo: SpaceX