{"id":141870,"date":"2022-07-08T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/spacex-outfits-starship-super-heavy-with-dozens-of-raptor-engines"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:23:58","slug":"spacex-outfits-starship-super-heavy-with-dozens-of-raptor-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/spacex-outfits-starship-super-heavy-with-dozens-of-raptor-engines","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX outfits Starship, Super Heavy with dozens of Raptor engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-outfits-starship-super-heavy-with-dozens-of-raptor-engines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New photos shared by SpaceX show that the company has nearly finished installing a total of 39 upgraded Raptor engines on a new Starship and its Super Heavy booster.<\/p>\n<p>Those prototypes \u2013 known as Ship 24 and Booster 7 \u2013 could be tasked with supporting Starship\u2019s first orbital launch attempt sometime later this year if both make it through upcoming test campaigns without major issues. Whether that\u2019s a probable outcome is still uncertain but recent progress suggests that it won\u2019t take long for the prospects of both prototypes to shift into clearer focus.<\/p>\n<p>After several rounds of proof testing and two trips to and from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase, Texas orbital launch site (OLS) in March, April, and May, Super Heavy Booster 7 (B7) made its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-rollout-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">third trip to the pad<\/a> on June 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New photos shared by SpaceX show that the company has nearly finished installing a total of 39 upgraded Raptor engines on a new Starship and its Super Heavy booster. Those prototypes \u2013 known as Ship 24 and Booster 7 \u2013 could be tasked with supporting Starship\u2019s first orbital launch attempt sometime later this year if [\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-141870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141870","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=141870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}