SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos)

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SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos)

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SpaceX stacks its sixth Starship megarocket at its Starbase site in South Texas ahead of a planned Nov. 19, 2024 liftoff. | Credit: SpaceX via X

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket has come together ahead of its sixth-ever test flight next week.

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has stacked

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‘s two elements — the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper-stage spacecraft — on the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas.

The company confirmed the milestone in a Friday night X

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, which featured four photos of the stacking process and its aftermath.

a giant silver rocket stands next to its launch tower at night

That post also announced a date change for the flight: It has slipped from Monday (Nov. 18) to Tuesday (Nov. 19). Liftoff will occur during a 30-minute window that opens at 5 p.m. EST (2100 GMT; 4 p.m. local Texas time).

Super Heavy and Ship made the trip to the launch pad separately earlier this week. Stacking them created a vehicle nearly 400 feet (122 meters) tall — the biggest and most powerful

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ever built.

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a giant silver rocket stands vertically at its seaside pad near dawn

SpaceX is developing Starship, which is designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, to help humanity settle the moon and

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NASA is already a customer; the space agency selected Starship to be the first crewed lander for its

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of lunar exploration. If all goes according to plan, Starship will deliver the Artemis 3 astronauts to the lunar surface in September 2026, in the first crewed moon landing since

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in 1972.

SpaceX stacks its sixth Starship megarocket at its Starbase site in South Texas ahead of a planned Nov. 19, 2024 liftoff.

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Starship’s previous five flights occurred in April and November of 2023 and March, June and October of this year.

Flight 5 provided lots of excitement, as Super Heavy came back to Earth for a touchdown next to Starbase’s launch tower, which caught the giant booster using its “chopstick” arms. SpaceX will try to duplicate this epic maneuver on Flight 6.

Ship, meanwhile, will splash down in the Indian Ocean, as it did on Flight 5.

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