Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
SpaceX fires a single engine on its Ship 26 Starship prototype in a deorbit burn test on Oct. 20, 2023.Starship, SpaceX's next-generation deep-space transportation system, is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It consists of a huge first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship.— 33 of them for Super Heavy and six for Starship — and both are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.
Such reuse will be enabled by deorbit burns and other engine firings that allow Starship vehicles to return safely toStarship has yet to perform any safe landings after space missions, however. The vehicle is still in development and has just one fully stacked liftoff under its belt, aSpaceX is gearing up for the second-ever Starship test flight, which will involve a Super Heavy known as Booster 9 and the Ship 25 upper stage.
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