--- title: "SpaceX Almost Ready to Move Super Heavy Booster to the Launch Pad" description: "In an early Thursday morning post on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is about to make some moves." date: "2021-07-01" modified: "2021-07-01" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-almost-ready-move-super-heavy-booster" categories: - "Space" - "SpaceX" tags: - "elon musk" - "SpaceX" - "super heavy" - "the digest" --- # SpaceX Almost Ready to Move Super Heavy Booster to the Launch Pad ![In an early Thursday morning post on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is about to make some moves.]() *\Image: SpaceX\* ## Making Moves SpaceX is inching closer to launching its first Super Heavy booster prototype, a gigantic rocket meant to propel the company's Starship spacecraft into orbit. In an early [Thursday morning post]() on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company is about to make some big moves on the project — literally. "Super Heavy moves tomorrow," the billionaire wrote, along with a photo showing the towering structure of a Super Heavy prototype inside the company's High Bay facility in South Texas. And sure enough, early Thursday morning, Booster 3 [was spotted]() leaving High Bay by onlookers. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1410537991236243461 ## Rocket Socket The 215-foot rocket dubbed Booster 3 recently reached full height, with construction taking a mere six weeks, [according to *Teslarati*](). SpaceX is getting ever closer to its first orbital Starship launch — and the Super Heavy booster is just as much part of that plan as the spacecraft itself. If recent progress is anything to go by, the first Starship could be entering orbit before the end of the year. Booster 3, however, isn't destined to fly to orbit. In a [Wednesday tweet](), Musk noted that "Booster 3 will be used for ground tests. We’re changing much of design from 3 to 4." ## Fast Forward But production is bound to pick up steam. "Expect especially rapid evolution in first \~10 boosters & first \~30 ships," Musk added. At this week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, [Musk claimed]() that the company will be ready for the "first orbital launch attempt in the next few months." "We certainly will have an orbital-capable booster and orbital-capable ship, and the orbital launch site ready within the next month or so," he added. And we will certainly be watching — it's not every day we get to watch a nearly 400-foot rocket stack ignite its dozens of engines and launch into the sky. **READ MORE:** [SpaceX Super Heavy booster reaches full height as Elon Musk talks orbit]() \[*Teslarati*\] **More on SpaceX:** [*Elon Musk Offers to Bring a “Few Spare Engines” to Rocket Competitor*]() ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()