The Starship SN9 vehicle performed its fifth static fire test, lighting its three Raptor engines while remaining firmly on the ground at SpaceX’s South Texas facility, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica.
SN9 might now have checked enough boxes to launch on a high-altitude test mission in the coming days.
SpaceX is developing Starship to carry people and cargo to the moon, Mars and other cosmic destinations. The transportation system consists of two elements, both of which will be fully and rapidly reusable: the 165-foot-tall (50 meters) Starship spacecraft and a huge booster known as Super Heavy.
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