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CTOnews.com SpaceX set a new record earlier today when it became the first company in the world to use 14 rocket engines simultaneously, compared to Super Heavy's previous high of seven engines.

CTOnews.com has learned that the company is developing its Starship/Starship next-generation rocket in Boca Chica, Texas, designed for Mars missions.

On November 14, local time, the company's Starbase in southern Texas conducted Booster 7"static ignition" tests. According to Musk, the Booster 7 test used 14 Raptor engines. The ignition test lasted about 10 seconds and the scene was spectacular.

Today's static firing test may represent a big step toward liftoff, but proving Booster 7 is ready will require a lot of work, as it will use up to 33 Raptor engines.

CTOnews.com has learned that SpaceX has conducted multiple test flights for the Starship prototype so far, but none have flown more than six miles (10 kilometers).

SpaceX has signed Starship to several major clients, including NASA. NASA selected the spacecraft as the first manned lander for its Artemis lunar exploration program. If all goes according to plan, astronauts will set foot on the moon's surface again aboard their starships in 2025 or 2026.

Starship uses 33 Raptor 2 engines to generate up to 16 million pounds of thrust, while 14 engines generate the same thrust as 37 Merlin engines (190,000 pounds each), and if each engine can generate 510,000 pounds (230 tons) of thrust, then the thrust during this test reaches 7.1 million pounds (3220 tons).

By contrast, NASA's Saturn V, which put the first man on the moon more than 50 years ago, generated 7.6 million pounds of thrust at launch.

This means that Starship, with 14 engines, is the fourth-most powerful "rocket" in history, stronger than NASA's previous space shuttles, but still inferior to the retired Soviet Energia, N1 and Saturn V of the United States.

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