Starship – the king of rockets, refueled for the first time in full readiness [WIDEO]. SpaceX is testing a launch system

Starship, the largest rocket ever built by man, has just undergone successful tests of the launch system, referred to in the space industry as the so-called. “wet dress rehearsal”. SpaceX refueled its flagship for the first time in full mission readiness; over 4.5 thousand water was poured into the 120-meter-high structure consisting of a central section (Ship 24) and a booster (Booster 7). tons of fuel that is a mixture of liquid oxygen and liquid methane. Elon Musk has reason to be pleased; a March date for an orbital test flight seems realistic.

Now based in Brownsville, Texas, SpaceX Starship has not only been refueled – the company has also run a test countdown to 10 seconds before launch (T-10) and checked the vehicle’s overall performance under launch conditions. This is what the process looked like:

Starship – refueling and test of the SpaceX rocket launch system

Starship completed its first full flight-like wet dress rehearsal at Starbase today. This was the first time an integrated Ship and Booster were fully loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant pic.twitter.com/btprGNGZ1G

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 24, 2023

Recall that Starship, the largest rocket in history in terms of height and payload that can carry into low Earth orbit (150 tons), will be dismantled and then reassembled before the test flight – SpaceX still has to test the ignition power of all 33 Booster engines 7 simultaneously.

Musk recently stated that the window for the orbital test flight for the Starship rocket will open in late February, adding that “a March date seems very likely.” During this mission, Ship 24 will orbit the Earth before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

Recently, SpaceX has posted several photos of the rocket online: