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The Starship vehicle that was stacked on Oct. 11 is slated to fly the program's first-ever orbital test flight, perhaps as early as November.
SpaceX has already performed brief"static fire" tests with both Ship 24 and Booster 7, firing up their Raptor engines while keeping the vehicles anchored to the ground. In fact, the company has ignitedBut Booster 7's static fires have involved just a handful of the vehicle's 33 Raptors at once. And none of its ignitions have occurred while Ship 24 sat atop it.
The coming weeks are likely to see a variety of tests that feature the full Starship stack. Fueling trials will pave the way for increasingly ambitious static fires, which will likely culminate in a full 33-engine firing of Booster 7, as
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