"Starship" is the new spacecraft that SpaceX is developing to go to the moon and then to Mars. Its last test flight in May successfully achieved an altitude of about six miles and came back down safely (the previous prototypes exploded).
But it won't really get away from planet Earth without a booster rocket.
So SpaceX is also developing the Super Heavy rocket to do that. The rocket plus the new spacecraft constitute the Starship system. Together, the two components will do a test flight soon to launch Starship (the upper stage of the system) into orbit around Earth.
But first the new rocket has to be tested, and it's already on the launching pad.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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