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Saturday 24 October 2026

Thirty-three on the pad

Friday 28 August: SpaceX ran a full-duration 33-engine static fire of Super Heavy Booster 21 for Flight 14. Caesar plus seven.

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Photo: Jenny Hautmann / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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SpaceX posted the test from Starbase on Friday. Full duration. Thirty-three engines. Booster 21, getting ready for Flight 14.

Stand-in photo of a steel SpaceX Super Heavy booster with black grid fins beside the launch tower arm at Starbase, Texas — Photo: Jenny Hautmann / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped

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