Booster 9 Removed From Launch Site Ahead Of...

 

Booster 9 Removed From Launch Site Ahead Of...


After the Static Fire of what appears to be 29 Raptor engines below Booster 9, SpaceX rolled back the first stage of the next flight test to the production site. Meanwhile, the hot staging extension is still at the Masseys test site as the company gets ready to test the most significant modification between flights one and two.

The Static Fire was completed on Sunday, following an initial Spin Prime test on Friday. On the SpaceX stream for the event, it was confirmed that the test was planned for five seconds, between the first ignition of a Raptor engine and the complete shutdown. Both the FireX system, as well as the new deluge system, was used for this test. 

FireX is the system that was already in place for the first flight. It is used to push away gas bubbles below the Orbital Launch Mount and was installed after the Booster 7 Spin Prime anomaly to prevent such events in the future.

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