Super Heavy Booster 4 ignition test! All Raptor Engines are Ready for Static Fire Test...#STARSHIPFANS
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It happened! SpaceX's Sleeping Monster is Sneezing, Ready to fire up next week!
It happened! SpaceX Booster 4 just had an igniter 3 engines test. This crazy moment was wonderfully captured by the LabPadre team at 19:49 on December 23.
This is really a big Christmas present for us and also the first trigger for an explosive campaign next week!
Let’s find out more in today’s episode of SpaceX Fans:
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More than three months after the building-sized Starship booster’s latest return to Starbase’s orbital launch site, Super Heavy 4, what CEO Elon Musk says is still the first flightworthy Super Heavy has finally been reactivated.
After completing a number of pad tests in the days prior, SpaceX began filling Super Heavy Booster 4 (B4) with liquid nitrogen – supplied for the first orbital-class Starship launch – for the first time on December 17th. It’s unclear exactly what was done during the test but regardless of what transpired, the test and B4’s survival were a major, long-awaited milestone for both the Starship booster and the orbital launch site (OLS).
At this point in time, the general consensus among close followers of SpaceX’s Starship program is that the unprecedented amount of time it’s taken the company to complete Booster 4’s first test was not because of the rocket itself but rather because the orbital launch site needed to fully test what has yet to be completed. While it was SpaceX’s choice to not perform some kind of initial testing with B4 at one of the site’s two suborbital test and launch mounts, it’s clear that the company ultimately concluded that Super Heavy Booster 3’s successful July 2021 tests – including a cryogenic proof virtually identical to Booster 4’s first test – made such partial testing redundant.
Put a different way, SpaceX must already be confident enough in the quality of the first few Super Heavies rolling out of its Starbase factory to deem it unnecessary to verify the structural integrity of the first truly completed Super Heavy booster before putting the one and only orbital Starship launch site directly in the line of fire. Nonetheless, depending on how far Super Heavy Booster 4’s first cryogenic proof test went, it appears that SpaceX’s presumptions were correct.
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