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Podcast: Elon Musk Podcast
Episode: SpaceX Starship Testing Continues Before Next Launch
Description: An intricate dance of preparation and testing is unfolding at SpaceX's South Texas facilities. To ready Ship 25 for its star turn in the next integrated flight test, the teams have thrown themselves into a thorough engine test campaign. They're leaving no stone unturned, from a spin prime test all the way to a six-engine static fire test of the ship's formidable Raptor engines.
Learning from the first flight's successes and challenges, the engineers have made tweaks to the ship's engine shielding and internal tank structure. Using the robust SpaceX LR11000 crane for additional support to the tanks...