Elon Musk for the first time demonstrated the prototype of the super-heavy accelerator Super Heavy

The main person at SpaceX, I. Musk first published a snapshot from the Boca Chica test site, which captured the first Super Heavy prototype - BN 1.

This suggests that the company's engineers have almost completed the installation of the first superheavy booster demonstrator for their Starship spacecraft. This means that ground tests of the installation will begin in the very near future.

SpaceX progress and first Super Heavy demo

If you look at the last couple of months, then SpaceX engineers have done significant work. This is how the full-size prototypes of the Starship spacecraft were tested.

The SN 8 and SN 9 tests ended in explosions due to engine malfunction during landing, but despite this, the tests were deemed successful. The prototype SN 10 was already successfully landed on the launch pad, but exploded 8 minutes after landing due to a defect in the fuel tank.

SN 11 will be tested very soon. But up to this point, SpaceX has not shown any version of Super Heavy - its first reusable booster reaching at a height of approximately 70 meters, with the help of which it is planned to launch Starship in the future and take payloads to orbit. And just the other day, in one of the social networks, Elon Musk posted the first snapshot of the prototype.

From this we can conclude that the assembly of the first prototype Super Heavy Booster 1 (BN 1) has been completed. The challenge now for engineers is to carry out the first tests, which will mainly focus on the inspection of fuel tanks. After all, they will have to withstand significant mechanical stress and extreme temperatures.

So in the final iteration, 28 Raptor engines will be installed on the Super Heavy. But on BN 1 they will not be at all, since its purpose is complex tests on Earth. Super Heavy BN 2 is already planning to launch into the sky.

When will the first Super Heavy space flight take place?

According to the strategic plan, the first orbital tests of the launch vehicle should take place in the first half of July this year. It was at this time that prototypes BN 3, as well as SN 20, should be launched into the sky.

Ultimately, SpaceX plans to create the world's first fully reusable system, the main goal of which is will be in the transportation of crews and cargo to orbit, as well as providing full-fledged research missions to the Moon and Mars.

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