{"id":185104,"date":"2024-03-14T18:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/spacex-makes-significant-progress-with-third-starship-orbital-test-flight"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:24:40","slug":"spacex-makes-significant-progress-with-third-starship-orbital-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/spacex-makes-significant-progress-with-third-starship-orbital-test-flight","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX makes significant progress with third Starship orbital test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-makes-significant-progress-with-third-starship-orbital-test-flight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> is continuing to make progress on the development of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, with the third test flight Thursday accomplishing considerably more than the previous two tests.<\/p>\n<p>The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket lifted off from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase facility in southeastern Texas at 8:25 a.m. local time. Although SpaceX has been developing Starship for years, this is only the third time the company has attempted an orbital mission.<\/p>\n<p>After liftoff, Starship proceeded through a nominal \u2014 aerospace speak for normal \u2014 ascend. All 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster performed as designed, and the two stages separated around 2 minutes 45 seconds into the mission. Critically, the launch vehicle nailed a novel stage separation technique called \u201chot staging,\u201d where the upper stage (also called Starship) lights its engines to push away the Super Heavy booster. The hot-staging technique was performed for the first time, ever, during the second Starship test flight last November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is continuing to make progress on the development of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, with the third test flight Thursday accomplishing considerably more than the previous two tests. The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket lifted off from SpaceX\u2019s Starbase facility in southeastern Texas at 8:25 a.m. local time. Although SpaceX has been developing Starship for [\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-185104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185104","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=185104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}