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Starship Super Heavy Breezes Through Wind Tunnel Testing

Miniature Scale Model Tested at NASA Ames Research Center

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Tom Patton
Sep 16, 2024
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NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign. SpaceX, the commercial Human Landing System (HLS) provider for Artemis III and Artemis IV, recently tested a 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket, or booster, in the transonic Unitary …

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