WASHINGTON (Reuters) -SpaceX’s towering Super Heavy booster, one half of the company’s Starship rocket system, briefly roared to life for the first time on Thursday in a test-firing that puts the behemoth moon and Mars vehicle closer to its first orbital flight in the coming months. Thirty-one of the Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor rocket engines fired for roughly 10 seconds at SpaceX’s facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, tweeted shortly after the test, shown during a livestream. The engines were ignited in a roar of orange flames and billowing clouds of vapor while the 23-story-tall rocket remained bolted in place vertically atop a platform adjacent to a launch tower.
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