SpaceX Starship's Super Heavy Rocket is ready for what could be its final launch pad test before a likely orbital test flight in July. The massive Super Heavy Booster 7, which has 33 Raptor engines, was transported to its orbital launch pad on June 23. An enormous robotic arm mounted the rocket to the launch pad. A huge amount of work was required for the company to reach this point due to the large number of Raptor rocket engines in the Super Heavy. Elon Musk has said that SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy Booster 7 will most likely be ready for an orbital test flight in July One difference between SpaceX's rockets and all the ones that came before it - theirs are reusable, which is a huge cost savings. As Ars Technica notes, Aerojet Rocketdyne, which also makes propulsion rockets, has a goal of building just four RS-25 rocket engines for NASA this year.

Following the successful landing of SN15, SpaceX now plans to attempt to fly a Starship prototype into orbit. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the company details how it hopes its next test flight will unfold. According to the document, a Starship craft fitted with a Super Heavy booster will lift from the company's Boca Chica, Texas launch facility. Approximately three minutes into the flight, the booster stage will separate and splash down in the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles from shore. The Starship rocket will pass over the Straits of Florida before entering orbit and then returning to Earth and attempting to make a soft ocean landing approximately 62 miles off the northwest coast of Kauai.