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August 11, 2023

SpaceX Static Fires Super Heavy Booster 9

Inklings of a Second Starship Launch

On Sunday, 06 August 2023, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation—known throughout the world as SpaceX, the American spacecraft manufacturer, launch-service provider, and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California and owned by enigmatic multi-billionaire and Tesla-founder Elon Musk—performed a static-fire test of a new Super Heavy booster at its Boca Chica, Texas Starbase launch facility. While the ignition of 33 Raptor rocket engines proved a memorable spectacle; the test-firing yielded both favorable and unfavorable results.

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