Thirty-one of the 33first-stage booster engines ignited simultaneously for about 10 seconds in south Texas. The team turned off one engine before sending the firing command and another engine shut down—"but still enough engines to reach orbit!" tweeted SpaceX's Elon Musk.

Musk estimates Starship's first orbital test flight could occur as soon as March, if the test analyses and remaining preparations go well.

The booster remained anchored to the pad as planned during the test. There were no signs of major damage to the launch tower.

NASA is counting on Starship to ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon in a few years, linking up with its Orion capsule in lunar orbit. Further down the road, Musk wants to use the mammoth Starships to send crowds to Mars.

Only the first-stage Super Heavy booster, standing 230 feet (69 meters) tall, was used for Thursday's test. The futuristic second stage—the part that will actually land on the moon and Mars—was in the hangar being prepped for flight.

Altogether, Starship towers 394 feet (120 meters), making it the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It's capable of generating 17 million pounds of liftoff thrust, almost double that of NASA's moon rocket that sent an empty capsule to the moon and back late last year.

SpaceX fired up to 14 Starship engines last fall and completed a fueling test at the pad last month.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-spacex-ignites-giant-starship-rocket.html

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The cultists don't need assistance with their suicide rituals, they propose it to normalize self-murder and demoralize NPCs

Celebrities tattooing each others necks for the Peddys the annual satanist gala for the Pedovore Awards.

The neck tat competition is white hot this year with NPCs urging their favorite celebs on to ever more daring and explicit ink.

"Oh we're living the dream," says one nameless celeb, thin, non-binary neck writhing with photoluminescent demons and Sumerian curses, "many of us were raped as children to earn the privilege. "