Next big Starship wicket underway

[glhs837]

Wet Dress Rehearsal. Both vehicles stacked, and then fully fuelled with liquid methane and oxygen..... After this, they will be "detanked" or defuelled, destacked, and the first stage will get a full 33 engine static fire, then restack and then launch.

 

[stgislander]

Well, we had the successful test fire of 31 raptor engines a while back. What and when is the next step?

 

[glhs837]

Well, we had the successful test fire of 31 raptor engines a while back. What and when is the next step?

They replace at least one engine, then did a "spin prime" with it. Right now they are hardening the Orbital Launch Table, adding serious steel shielding to an upper catwalk area.



Once that's done, restack Ship 24 onto Booster Seven, and then light the candle. Since I'll be in Dallas, not quite close enough to visit, I suspect it will happen the week of the 20th.