{"id":118121,"date":"2021-01-06T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacexs-starship-sn9-prototype-fires-its-engines-for-the-1st-time"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:23:00","slug":"spacexs-starship-sn9-prototype-fires-its-engines-for-the-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacexs-starship-sn9-prototype-fires-its-engines-for-the-1st-time","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship SN9 prototype fires its engines for the 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_xQWElgWvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/videos.space.com\/m\/ES6g9GNd\/spacex-starship-sn9-test-fired-ahead-of-flight?list=6DUiA9a3\">The SN9 vehicle\u2019s three engines lit up<\/a> for about one second today (Jan. 6) at 5:07 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) during a static-fire test at SpaceX\u2019s South Texas facilities, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica.<\/p>\n<p>Static fires, in which rocket engines blaze while a vehicle remains anchored to the ground, are a routine preflight checkout. And SN9 (\u201cSerial No. 9\u201d) will indeed get off the ground soon, if all goes according to plan: SpaceX is prepping the vehicle for a test flight that\u2019s expected to be similar to the epic one made last month by its predecessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SN9 vehicle\u2019s three engines lit up for about one second today (Jan. 6) at 5:07 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) during a static-fire test at SpaceX\u2019s South Texas facilities, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica. Static fires, in which rocket engines blaze while a vehicle remains anchored to the ground, are a routine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}