SpaceX Update: The First Super Heavy Booster Has Been Assembled...

Yesterday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted this photo of Super Heavy Booster No. 1 (BN1) after engineers recently completed its stacking inside the High Bay at Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. While BN1 will not take flight, but instead used for ground testing at the company's launch facility, it is with BN3 and Starship Serial No. 20 that SpaceX hopes to conduct an orbital flight by this July (this target date will most likely be changed). BN2—which is currently being constructed at Boca Chica Beach—will go airborne using four Raptor engines instead of the three utilized by Starship. Once operational, Super Heavy will eventually soar into space using 28 Raptor engines!


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