Starship 39 performed a long duration static fire test at the Starbase Massey's test site today firing 6 Raptor 3 engines in preparation for upcoming Starship test flight 12. Awesome! 4/14/26

@CSI_Starbase Nice to see Raptor 3’s firing for the first time ever on a ship! Looked great and about 60 seconds! The upgrades at Massey’s also to be commended!

Massey's test site is officially back in business.🔥

Did we just watch a bird get cooked?😂😂😂

@JoeTegtmeyer Such an awesome time to be a space fan. With Artemis just landing & starship really about to bring it home with some awesome test flights, just need to find time to get down there and watch one in person.

Just remembered that the vacuum engines shutdown before the sea level engines, it's been a while since we had a static fire. Am so excited to hear the noise of the raptor engines once again, it's really been a while.

@JoeTegtmeyer Was there yesterday

Raptor 3 on a ship for the first time and it SLAPS What a beast! Flight 12 is gonna be insane 🔥

@INiallAnderson Masseys is officially back online!

@TheCaptainEli @SpaceX should sacrifice just one gen 2 @Tesla_Optimus for the ride. Stick him in the ship with a live feed. People would share that all day.

The flash you see at second 53 is worrying? 🤔

The boys are back in town! Hell yeah!

@CSI_Starbase Early shutdown @ 0:54??

I wonder why the smoke changed color from white to either gray or black.

@JoeTegtmeyer Let her go, she wants to fly 🚀

Starship 39 says to Booster 19, "Come on Dude, I'm ready!"

Six rocket engines firing at once on a test pad. Whatever that structure is insured for, I would want to review the policy language before they attempt flight 12.

@TheCaptainEli Powerful engine

@CSI_Starbase Wow what power Raptor V3 has 😊 just imagine the booster soon 🥹 going to rumble more than ever till launch 🚀 stunning

@JoeTegtmeyer Awesomeness! 🚀🔥

@NASAWatch Spectacular!

Awesome, so when are they going to be able to land that thing and defeat the force of gravity, etc?

The vehicle involved, Starship “Ship 39,” fired six upgraded Raptor engines (often referred to as Raptor 3 variants). These engines are designed for higher efficiency, improved reliability, and greater thrust consistency compared to earlier versions, making them essential for future deep space missions and orbital flights.

Why does the plume turn to black after a while? did something go wrong?!?!

That poor trench!

Thanks for the update!

What are the chances of it being damaged during these tests? Seems like that would be high probability.

amazin!!!

Oh my god that test is going to make the earth rotate faster shit

Liking the new hardware 👏

So awesome!!

Those got to be some hefty tie downs ....

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