SpaceX is already gearing up for the next flight of its Starship megarocket, just a week and a half after the most recent one left the ground.

The company performed a long-duration "static fire" test with Super Heavy, Starship's huge first-stage booster, at its Starbase site in South Texas on Friday (June 6).

All 33 of Super Heavy's Raptor engines lit up during the trial, SpaceX said in a Friday X post that shared a photo and two short videos of the action.

The test was part of the preparations for Starship's next launch, according to the X post. That flight will be the 10th to date of a fully stacked Starship — a Super Heavy topped with an upper stage known as Starship, or Ship for short.

Starship Flight 9 lifted off from Starbase just last week, on May 27. It was a landmark launch —

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