Monday, February 13, 2023

New SpaceX Photos: Falcon 9 Starlink Launch & Starship Engine Test

New SpaceX Photos: Falcon 9 Starlink Launch & Starship Engine Test

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 5-4 mission at 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 GMT) on Feb. 12, 2023, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. With the 55 new satellites that traveled to space on Sunday’s mission, SpaceX has now launched 3,930 Starlink spacecraft since the first prototypes in 2018.


At SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas, Starship Super Heavy Booster 7 completed a successful full duration static fire test of 31 Raptor engines, producing 7.9 million lb of thrust (~3,600 metric tons)—less than half of the booster’s capability on Feb. 9, 2023.

 


Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) 

Image Dates: Feb. 9 & 12, 2023


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