Starship, ascend!
This might be my favorite spaceflight image of the year. Taken atop the 480-foot-tall (146-meter) launch mount at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, it shows the methane-generated plume emanating from Starship’s 33 Raptor engines, with the Sun in the background rising above the Gulf of Mexico. The image was captured on November 18 during the second flight test of the experimental megarocket.
