SpaceX has released dramatic footage showing the testing of a new water deluge system designed to limit the damage caused by its Starship rocket at launch.

Once operational, the system will work to suppress the power of SpaceX’s megarocket, which exerts nearly 17 million pounds of thrust at launch.

The first test of SpaceX’s water deluge system at its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Gif: NASASpaceflight/Gizmodo On April 20, SpaceX wantonly launched its Starship megarocket without ...

SpaceX conducted a full-pressure test of a new water deluge system for its Starship launch vehicle on Friday, as the company looks to resolve one of the biggest problems that cropped up during the ...

A flow test of the Ignition Overpressure Protection and Sound Suppression water deluge system is in progress at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Oct. 15, 2018. At ...

While the weather forecast calls for a possible deluge Thursday, there will certainly be one Friday morning at the State House in Annapolis. The Maryland Department of General Services plans to con… ...

SpaceX gave its new Starship water-deluge system, which is designed to protect the launch pad against the superpowerful rocket, its first full-up test on July 28.

SpaceX conducted a full-pressure test of a new water deluge system for its Starship launch vehicle on Friday, as the company looks to resolve one of the biggest problems that cropped up during the ...

SpaceX conducted a full-pressure test of a new water deluge system for its Starship launch vehicle on Friday, as the company looks to resolve one of the biggest problems that cropped up during the ...