SpaceX shares picture of super heavy boosters for Starship 4, 5, and 6 flight

SpaceX today shared an image of the next three super heavy boosters that will be used for the Starship 4, Starship 5, and Starship 6 flights.

“Super Heavy boosters for the next three flights, with a fourth ready to stack, in the Starbase Megabay.” wrote SpaceX on X.

Back in November, SpaceX fired the second Starship test and cleared liftoff as well as hot-staging. The spacecraft failed to achieve the orbit, which is the primary goal of this mega-rocket.

SpaceX Super Heavy Boosters for Next Starship Missions (Source – SpaceX)

Soon after, SpaceX rolled out the third booster and Starship on the launch pad. The company has verified static fire twice in December and the rocket is ready to fly for a test. A pending FAA license will be required to conduct the third Starship flight and it might come in February.

The Starship flight is composed of a super heavy booster rocket and a Starship spacecraft. The Vehicle could take up to 100-150 tons of full reusable and 250 metric tonnes of expendable payload capacity.

The super heavy booster is powered by 33 Raptor engines using sub-cooled liquid methane (CH4) and liquid oxygen (LOX). With its engine compound, the booster generates 7,590 tf of thrust at sea level.

SpaceX Super Heavy Boosters for Next Starship Missions (Source – SpaceX)

Starship is the second stage of the integrated flight and it carries the payload. However, it also has a rocket system consisting of 3 Raptor engines and three Raptor Vacuums (RVac) engines.

The Starship system can generate a total thrust of 1,500 tf and its engines kick off after the hot-staging to take the flight into orbit.

During the second flight, Starship carried out the mission on its own for about 6-8 minutes before it lost connection with the mission control.

Elon Musk, Founder of SpaceX said last month that his company has identified the current issues and there’s a high chance to achieve orbit with third flight.