SpaceX Fires Up 232 Feet Tall Moon Rocket To Close Out 2023

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True to form, SpaceX is continuing to test its Starship rockets in Texas after it completed a record setting 96 missions to space late night yesterday. Friday has been a busy day at SpaceX's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas as the firm has fired up the engines for both stages of its Starship rocket system. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and the close of 2023 is seeing SpaceX move fast towards its third orbital test flight amidst chances that the upcoming test might also be the first that sees Starship attempt to deploy a payload to space.

Friday is turning out to be an exciting day for SpaceX's Starship rocket. It is one of the few times when the company has static fired both the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship rocket on the same day. On the surface, both these tests appear successful, with the second stage seemingly firing up only one engine.

The first static fire test of the day was for the second stage Starship. This rocket is also NASA's vehicle of choice to land astronauts on the Moon under the Artemis program. With the space agency slated to launch its first crewed lunar test flight next year, pressure is building on SpaceX to demonstrate key milestones in Starship's lunar launch profile so that its rockets are ready to fly on the day of launch.

While it is close to impossible to determine how many engines on the second stage were fired unless SpaceX shares the details, footage from the site indicated that one of the six engines was fired. This is part of a landing profile for the rocket, and there is additional speculation that perhaps the