{"id":1042032,"date":"2022-08-10T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1042032"},"modified":"2022-08-10T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:11:44","slug":"spacex-breathes-fire-in-south-texas-for-the-first-time-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1042032","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX breathes fire in South Texas for the first time in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FZwZBv7VEAAL_Kc-800x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX conducts a hot fire test of the Booster 7 rocket on Tuesday, August 9, 2022.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FZwZBv7VEAAL_Kc.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"2160\" data-width=\"3840\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> SpaceX conducts a hot fire test of the Booster 7 rocket on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SpaceX ignited engines on both the first and second stages of its Starship launch system on Wednesday, signaling that it is getting closer to a test flight of the massive rocket later this year.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening at 5:20 pm local time in South Texas, engineers ignited a single Raptor engine on the Super Heavy booster that serves as the rocket&#8217;s first stage. This is the first time the company has ever conducted a static fire test of the booster, which will ultimately be powered by 33 Raptor rocket engines.<\/p>\n<p>About three hours later, on a separate mount at its &#8220;Starbase&#8221; facility in Texas, SpaceX ignited two engines on the Starship upper stage of the rocket. The company later shared a short video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1557187138352861186\">on Twitter<\/a> of the evidently successful test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1872751#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1872751&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1872751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX breathes fire in South Texas for the first time in 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ SpaceX conducts a hot fire test of the Booster 7 rocket on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX ignited engines on both the first and second stages of its Starship launch system on Wednesday, signaling that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1042032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1042033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1042032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}