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SpaceX has made big progress towards building the first flightworthy prototype of its Starship booster called Super Heavy<\/a>.<\/p> An image shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk early Tuesday morning shows just how tall the booster prototype already is, towering above the intrepid billionaire inside High Bay, a 265 feet tall vertical assembly structure at the company’s South Texas testing facilities.<\/p> The image shows the “aft section” or the rear-facing section of the Super Heavy booster.<\/p> Stacking Super Heavy Aft Section pic.twitter.com\/itydacQ4hM<\/a><\/p> — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> SpaceX has hugely ambitious plans to launch its first Starship prototype into orbit. The space company wants to complete the first orbital test flight as early as next month<\/a> — and it will need a Super Heavy booster to do just that. The company’s blazing pace however suggests it may just have a chance.<\/p> The gigantic towering structure will eventually stand 230 feet tall and is meant to launch a Starship spacecraft prototype, which alone stands at 160 feet tall, into orbit.<\/p> Musk also shared a nighttime video<\/a> of the view from on top of High Bay, a vertigo-inducing height.<\/p> To get both rocket and booster off the ground — let alone stacked on top of each other — SpaceX is currently constructing a gigantic 400-foot launch tower<\/a> made up of massive prefabricated steel segments.<\/p> According to the latest pictures, SpaceX is about halfway there. According to Teslarati<\/em><\/a>, SpaceX is only two prefabricated sections away from reaching its full height.<\/p> If all goes according to plan, we could soon see a Starship prototype being hoisted on top of a Super Heavy — a momentous occasion in the launch platform’s years-long development.<\/p> But whether the first Starship orbital launch test will end in yet another explosion<\/a> remains to be seen.<\/p> More on Starship: <\/strong>The Air Force Seems to Be Investing Heavily in SpaceX’s Starship<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Elon Musk Shares New Pic of Giant Starship Rocket Booster<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read more: Booster Butt SpaceX has made big progress towards building the first flightworthy prototype of its Starship booster called Super Heavy . An image shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk early Tuesday morning shows just how tall the booster prototype already is, towering above the intrepid billionaire inside High Bay, a 265 feet tall vertical assembly structure at the company\u2019s South Texas testing facilities. Continue reading Rocket Stacking<\/h2>
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