{"id":157539,"date":"2023-02-10T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/spacex-ignites-giant-starship-rocket-in-crucial-pad-test"},"modified":"2023-02-10T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:22:21","slug":"spacex-ignites-giant-starship-rocket-in-crucial-pad-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/spacex-ignites-giant-starship-rocket-in-crucial-pad-test","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX ignites giant Starship rocket in crucial pad test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-ignites-giant-starship-rocket-in-crucial-pad-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-one of the 33 first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing command and another engine shut down \u2014 \u201cbut still enough engines to reach orbit!\u201d tweeted SpaceX\u2019s Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Musk estimates Starship\u2019s first orbital test flight could occur as soon as March, if the test analyses and remaining preparations go well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is a big step closer to sending its giant Starship spacecraft into orbit, completing an engine-firing test at the launch pad on Thursday. Thirty-one of the 33 first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing command and another engine shut [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157539","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=157539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}