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.
ignited the engines on its newest Starship spacecraft recently to gear up for a coming test flight, which could be just a few weeks away.upper stage on Friday afternoon at its Starbase facility, near the South Texas city of Brownsville. We got a glimpse of the action, thanks to
Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built: Fully stacked, the vehicle stands nearly 400 feet tall. Both of its stages — the spacecraft, known as Starship or simply"Ship," and the booster, called Super Heavy — are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsAnother view of the July 26 static fire, this one showing the side of the stainless-steel Starship that sports black heat-shield tiles.
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