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Watch close-up slow-motion video of Starship Flight 7 engines
SpaceX has published a slow-motion close-up video of Starship Flight 7 first stage clearing the launch pad with 33 Raptor engines firing altogether.
The integrated Starship flight lifted off from Starbase, Texas at 4:37 p.m. CT on Thursday, January 16. This flight contains two stages including the first stage with 33 Raptor engines generating more than 16.7 million pounds of thrust.
Liftoff of Starship’s seventh flight test. The Super Heavy booster utilized flight proven hardware for the first time, reusing a Raptor engine from the fifth flight test pic.twitter.com/v4C4ZJ36If
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 17, 2025
It consumes sub-cooled liquid methane and liquid oxygen to burn and generate this immense power to clear the launch pad with the upper stage.
This time, SpaceX has used a Raptor engine as flight-proven hardware from Flight 5 booster. It worked well according to the telemetry system because the booster not only launched at full power, it also returned back to the launch site and relit engines as it made a way for catch tower chopsticks.