SpaceX's towering Starship Flight 3 rocket and Super Heavy booster atop the launch pad at night in a fueling test at the company's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. (Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX's next Starship to fly has passed a critical fueling test, setting the stage for a highly anticipated third launch attempt of the world's biggest rocket. 

夜间，SpaceX 高耸的 Starship Flight 3 火箭和超重型助推器在发射台顶部，在该公司位于德克萨斯州博卡奇卡的 Starbase 设施进行加油测试。 （图片来源：SpaceX）SpaceX 的下一艘星际飞船已经通过了关键的加油测试，为备受期待的世界最大火箭的第三次发射尝试奠定了基础。

The gleaming, stainless-steel Starship rocket and its Super Heavy booster, which together stand 400 feet tall (122 meters), were filled with more than 10 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen propellant during the recent launch dress rehearsal, which was performed at SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in southern Texas. 

这艘闪闪发光的不锈钢星舰火箭及其超重型助推器总共高 400 英尺（122 米），在最近的发射彩排中填充了超过 1000 万磅的液态甲烷和液氧推进剂。位于德克萨斯州南部博卡奇卡海滩附近的 SpaceX Starbase 设施。

"Starship Flight 3 preparing for launch," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter), sharing SpaceX's photos of the fueling test on March 4. SpaceX shared the series of stunning photos of the fueling test in a separate X post.

“Starship Flight 3 正在准备发射”，SpaceX 首席执行官埃隆·马斯克 (Elon Musk) 在 X（以前称为 Twitter）上的一篇帖子中写道，分享了 SpaceX 3 月 4 日的加油测试照片。SpaceX 在单独的 X 上分享了一系列令人惊叹的加油测试照片邮政。

SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy booster are designed to be the world's most powerful rocket and fully reusable, capable of hauling up to 165 tons (150 metric tons) into orbit. NASA has picked Starship to eventually land its next astronauts on the moon as the Artemis 3 lunar lander in 2026.  But first, SpaceX has to successfully launch a Starship on at least a near-orbital flight, something its first two test flights, in April and November of 2023, failed to do.

SpaceX 的 Starship 和 Super Heavy 助推器旨在成为世界上最强大的火箭，并且完全可重复使用，能够将最多 165 吨（150 公吨）的物体拖入轨道。 NASA 已选择 Starship 最终在 2026 年将其下一批宇航员作为 Artemis 3 月球着陆器送上月球。但首先，SpaceX 必须在至少一次近轨道飞行中成功发射 Starship，这是其 4 月份的前两次试飞2023 年 11 月，未能做到。

In a recent interview, Elon Musk said SpaceX's third Starship test flight could launch in early March, but the company is still awaiting a license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the upcoming flight. 

在最近的一次采访中，埃隆·马斯克表示 SpaceX 的第三次 Starship 试飞可能会在 3 月初发射，但该公司仍在等待美国联邦航空管理局 (FAA) 为即将进行的飞行颁发许可证。

Last week, FAA officials closed a mishap investigation into SpaceX's Starship Flight 2 test, which launched a Starship and Super Heavy booster on Nov. 18. That mission ended in two explosions, first of the Super Heavy booster 3.5 minutes after liftoff and then of the Starship vehicle itself eight minutes into the flight, at a maximum altitude of 91 miles (148 kilometers). 

上周，美国联邦航空局官员结束了对 SpaceX 星舰飞行 2 号测试的事故调查，该测试于 11 月 18 日发射了一艘星舰和超重型助推器。该任务以两次爆炸告终，第一次是超重型助推器在升空 3.5 分钟后发生爆炸，第二次是超重型助推器在升空后 3.5 分钟发生爆炸。星舰飞行器本身在飞行 8 分钟后，最高高度为 91 英里（148 公里）。

The FAA investigation identified 17 corrective actions for SpaceX to tackle before its next Starship launch. Those actions include 10 fixes on the 165-foot-tall (50 m) Starship vehicle and seven on the Super Heavy booster. 

FAA 调查确定了 SpaceX 在下一次 Starship 发射之前需要采取的 17 项纠正措施。这些行动包括对 165 英尺（50 m）高的 Starship 飞行器进行 10 项修复，对超重型助推器进行 7 项修复。

In a statement released on Feb. 26, SpaceX wrote that the Flight 2 Super Heavy booster exploded over the Gulf of Mexico after one of its 33 Raptor engines "failed energetically" after stage separation, likely due to a blocked filter in an liquid oxygen line, leading to a cascade failure. 

SpaceX 在 2 月 26 日发布的一份声明中写道，Flight 2 Super Heavy 助推器在墨西哥湾上空爆炸，原因是其 33 个 Raptor 发动机中的一个在级分离后“严重失效”，原因很可能是液氧管线中的过滤器堵塞，导致级联故障。

"SpaceX has since implemented hardware changes inside future booster oxidizer tanks to improve propellant filtration capabilities and refined operations to increase reliability," SpaceX wrote in the statement.

SpaceX 在声明中写道：“自那以后，SpaceX 对未来的助推器氧化剂罐进行了硬件改造，以提高推进剂过滤能力，并改进操作以提高可靠性。”

The Flight 2 Starship vehicle, meanwhile, likely failed after a leak in its aft section occurred during a planned venting of liquid oxygen, which led to a "combustion event and subsequent fires that led to a loss of communication between the spacecraft’s flight computers."

与此同时，Flight 2 Starship 飞船很可能在计划的液氧排放过程中发生尾部泄漏，导致“燃烧事件和随后的火灾，导致飞船飞行计算机之间的通信中断”。

"SpaceX has implemented hardware changes on upcoming Starship vehicles to improve leak reduction, fire protection, and refined operations associated with the propellant vent to increase reliability," SpaceX wrote in its statement. "The previously planned move from a hydraulic steering system for the vehicle's Raptor engines to an entirely electric system also removes potential sources of flammability."

SpaceX 在声明中写道：“SpaceX 已经对即将推出的星际飞船进行了硬件改造，以减少泄漏、防火，并改进与推进剂排气口相关的操作，以提高可靠性。” “之前计划将车辆猛禽发动机的液压转向系统改为全电动系统，这也消除了潜在的易燃源。”

SpaceX rolled its Flight 3 Starship and Super Heavy booster vehicles out to its Starbase launch pad separately in early February. The company attached Starship atop the Super Heavy booster in a stacked configuration for flight on Feb. 13.

SpaceX 于 2 月初分别将其 Flight 3 Starship 和 Super Heavy 助推器运到了 Starbase 发射台。该公司将 Starship 以堆叠配置安装在超重型助推器顶部，以便于 2 月 13 日进行飞行。