{"id":151640,"date":"2022-12-01T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spacexs-starship-may-be-just-one-static-fire-test-away-from-an-orbital-launch"},"modified":"2022-12-01T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:27:47","slug":"spacexs-starship-may-be-just-one-static-fire-test-away-from-an-orbital-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spacexs-starship-may-be-just-one-static-fire-test-away-from-an-orbital-launch","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship may be just one static fire test away from an orbital launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starship-may-be-just-one-static-fire-test-away-from-an-orbital-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The private space firm fired up 11 of Booster 7\u2019s 33 next-generation Raptor engines.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is making steady progress towards the orbital maiden test flight of its massive Mars-bound Starship rocket. The private space firm conducted a \u201cstatic fire\u201d test on Tuesday (Nov .29), at its South Texas facility. It ignited a total of 11 of 33 next-gen Raptor engines on its Starship first-stage Super Heavy prototype, Booster 7.<\/p>\n<p>The static fire engine test started at 2:42 pm EST (19:42 GMT) and lasted for 13 seconds. On Twitter, SpaceX shared an image and wrote, \u201cBooster 7 completed a long-duration static fire test of 11 Raptor 2 engines on the orbital launch pad at Starbase.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX \/ Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The private space firm conducted a \u201cstatic fire\u201d test on Tuesday (Nov .29), at its South Texas facility. It ignited a total of 11 of 33 next-gen Raptor engines on its Starship first-stage Super Heavy prototype, Booster 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The private space firm fired up 11 of Booster 7\u2019s 33 next-generation Raptor engines. SpaceX is making steady progress towards the orbital maiden test flight of its massive Mars-bound Starship rocket. The private space firm conducted a \u201cstatic fire\u201d test on Tuesday (Nov .29), at its South Texas facility. It ignited a total of 11 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151640","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}