SpaceX installs 29 engines on giant Super Heavy Mars rocket (photos)
By Mike Wall about 8 hours ago
The company is gearing up for the first orbital test flight of its Starship system.
Elon Musk posted this photo of a SpaceX Super Heavy booster prototype, with its newly installed Raptor engines, on Twitter on Aug. 2, 2021. (Image credit: Elon Musk via Twitter)
Starship is powering up.
SpaceX plans to launch the first orbital test flight of Starship, its reusable deep-space transportation system, in the next few months from the company's South Texas site, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica.
The company has made significant strides toward that milestone in the past few days, getting Starship's giant first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, ready to fly.
"Installing Starship booster engines for first orbital flight," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter yesterday (Aug. 1) in a post that included a photo of the rocket, with himself holding his young son nearby. And today (Aug. 2), Musk tweeted a close-up photo of Super Heavy's base, which is now bristling with Raptor engines.
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