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Mike Wall

SpaceX shows off newly modified Starship Super Heavy booster (photos)

a shiny silver rocket booster sits in a building with corrugating tin walls

SpaceX has added some new hardware to its latest Starship rocket prototype, which is being prepped for a test flight in the near future.

Starship, SpaceX's next-gen deep-space transportation system, consists of two fully reusable elements — a huge first-stage booster known as Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft called Starship.

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