SpaceX is equipping to test the 10th model of its enormous, sparkly rocket, Starship SN9 Wednesday (Jan. 20), illuminating its motors for what ought to be the last time before its debut flight. The test is expected before 5 p.m. Central Time.

The rocket won’t go anyplace during this “static fire” test. (Or then again, in any event, it shouldn’t.) But on the off chance that all works out as expected, this test should make room for a launch soon, however SpaceX has not set a date. NASA Spaceflight is live streaming the test from the Boca Chica, Texas, site where SpaceX assembles and tests its Starships.

This will be the second static fire trial of SN9, after a triplet of Jan. 13 tests finished uncertainly, with the engines not firing for the full proposed span, as NASA Spaceflight revealed. The organization has since traded out the engines utilized in the past tests.

Starship is SpaceX’s moonshot — literally. The organization has proposed the 160-foot-tall (49 meters) and 30-foot-wide (9 m) vehicle could one day land enormous groups of individuals on the moon or Mars. It has additionally sold tickets to board a future Starship for an orbit around the moon. To do all that will require a far-bigger “Super Heavy” promoter rocket to hang Starship into space, and that rocket has not yet been fabricated.

For the present, SpaceX is centered around building up the Starship vehicle itself. The last model, SN8, showed great capacities during a December 2020 test flight. That test saw SN8 space to the cruising altitude of a jetliner and make a controlled way to deal with its landing site prior to detonating on contact, as LiveScience announced at that point. SpaceX hasn’t said what its goals are for this next launch, however a successful arriving of the mammoth vehicle could be on the menu.