Starship Update: Super Heavy Booster 7 Ignites Its Engines While Booster 8 Rolls to the Pad...

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Just thought I'd share these photos and tweets showing Super Heavy Booster 7 igniting seven of its 33 Raptor 2 engines during a static fire at Starbase, Texas, earlier today. A few hours later, Booster 8 began its roll from Starbase's High Bay to the Orbital Launch Site to begin testing of its own.

The two images officially come courtesy of SpaceX, while the tweets are from NASASpaceFlight.com...which has 24/7 coverage of Starship operations on its Twitter page.


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STATIC FIRE! Booster 7 fires up multiple engines (the target was for seven). Let's see if @elonmusk confirms all seven, (which would be a new record!)

Super cool!https://t.co/NSTKFLryfS pic.twitter.com/QM12fz11iu

— Chris Bergin - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) September 19, 2022

Booster 8 is on the move tonight. Watch it live https://t.co/V9tgT0W1OV@NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/HczBenkO8f

— Mary (@BocaChicaGal) September 19, 2022

Booster 7 and Booster 8 are back together, albeit for a short time.

The OLT strobes are better than anything you can buy on Amazon!🙃https://t.co/OqT9wDXFup pic.twitter.com/kEX3VJGMIe

— Chris Bergin - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) September 20, 2022

Booster 7 now returns to high bay for robustness upgrades & booster 8 moves to pad for testing.

Next big test is probably full stack wet dress rehearsal, then 33 engine firing in a few weeks.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 19, 2022