{"id":"1792977770495-mix-show_open","slug":"starship-fires-all-thirty-three-engines-at-once","title":"Starship fires all thirty-three engines at once","summary":"SpaceX confirmed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster for Flight 15 on Oct. 25, 2026; trackers identify the booster as Booster 22. This is a ground test, not a launch. This is a subjective tier ranking/opinion, not a checkable factual claim.","publishedAt":"2026-10-26T01:22:50.495Z","channel":{"id":"mix","name":"Oncast Mix","language":"en"},"show":"Big Ideas","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: SpaceX confirmed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster for Flight 15 on Oct. 25, 2026; trackers identify the booster as Booster 22. This is a ground test, not a launch. This is a subjective tier ranking/opinion, not a checkable factual claim.\nSource: SpaceX via [superchargeddaily.com](https://superchargeddaily.com/dispatch/booster-22-static-fire.html), [nextspaceflight.com](https://nextspaceflight.com/starsh (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114513919566033266)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"SpaceX confirmed a full-duration 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster for Flight 15 on Oct. 25, 2026; trackers identify the booster as Booster 22. This is a ground test, not a launch. This is a subjective tier ranking/opinion, not a checkable factual claim.","sourceName":"SpaceX via [superchargeddaily.com](https://superchargeddaily.com/dispatch/booster-22-static-fire.html), [nextspaceflight.com](https://nextspaceflight.com/starsh","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114513919566033266","claim":"Starship Flight 15 static fire https://t.co/KHi3mBV79r","author":"Elon Musk (@elonmusk)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2114513919566033266","name":"SpaceX via [superchargeddaily.com](https://superchargeddaily.com/dispatch/booster-22-static-fire.html), [nextspaceflight.com](https://nextspaceflight.com/starsh","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Elon Musk (@elonmusk)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792977770495-mix-show_open-starship-fires-all-thirty-three-engines-at-once","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/mix","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792977770495-mix-show_open-starship-fires-all-thirty-three-engines-at-once","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792977770495-mix-show_open-starship-fires-all-thirty-three-engines-at-once and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Sloane","text":"Big Ideas is on. Science, space, future tech."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And the first story tonight: SpaceX just lit up thirty-three engines at once — on purpose."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Elon Musk posted the clip on X about an hour ago. Full duration static fire of the Super Heavy booster."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"They strap that thing to the pad and hold it there while all thirty-three engines scream."},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's the point. If it survives this, Flight 15 gets a real shot."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"It's also a great way to find out which weld gives up first."},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's exactly what a static fire is for. And one reply nailed it: the flight gets the headline, but this is where trust gets built."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Trust is a strong word for a booster that hasn't flown yet."},{"host":"Eric","text":"No, come on — full duration means the engines ran the whole time they were supposed to. That's not nothing."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"I didn't say it's nothing. I said let's not treat a ground test like a landing."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Fair. But you'd rather see this than an on-pad explosion."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Absolutely. And I remember the earlier flights where we had exactly that."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Which is why a full-duration fire matters. You find weak points on the ground, not at twenty kilometers."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Okay, I'll give you that. Ground tests are cheaper than lost boosters."},{"host":"Eric","text":"And this booster — Booster 22 — came through it. That's the kind of quiet progress SpaceX makes between headlines."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Quiet except for the roar of thirty-three engines shaking the Texas coast."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Point taken."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"The real test is the landing, not the hold-down burn."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Flight 15 should show us both."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Different corner of future tech, and this one is more worrying. Todd Dailey on X has a shower thought that's going around."},{"host":"Eric","text":"He says the next twelve to eighteen months, IT budgets flip from coding and productivity AI to security AI."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Because budgets never shifted to security until AI came along?"},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's not his point. His point is attackers are now using AI agents, and they're moving faster."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"He claims one attacker pointed AI agents at more than twelve hundred websites and got into about a hundred. That number is unverified, but if it holds—"},{"host":"Eric","text":"If it holds? Even half that would be a wave."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"A hundred out of twelve hundred is about eight percent. That's not a wave, that's a successful afternoon for human attackers too."},{"host":"Eric","text":"You're missing the speed. One person, with AI agents, hitting twelve hundred sites. That's the difference."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"I agree the speed matters. But companies aren't going to drop coding AI; they're going to buy both."},{"host":"Eric","text":"They'll shift the balance. Security becomes the budgeting priority because the attacks are automated."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And then vendors sell more security AI, and guess what? The budget line grows in both directions."},{"host":"Eric","text":"You say that like it's bad. If the attacks are real, spending is real."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"I'm saying this prediction is exactly what every security vendor wants you to believe."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Oh, come on. You don't have to be a vendor to see that AI changes offense and defense."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"No, you don't. But you should ask who benefits from the panic."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Fine. We can argue about motive. But the direction is right: attackers automate, defenders have to automate back."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"I'll concede the speed. I won't concede the budget prediction."},{"host":"Eric","text":"We'll check back in a year."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Meanwhile, someone on X ranked every personal AI agent like it's a fighting game tier list."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"One gets S tier — Grok Bot. Everything else falls below."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I love that there's a D tier for an assistant. What did Instinct do to deserve D?"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"The post doesn't say. It just names names and declares a winner."},{"host":"Eric","text":"And we're supposed to take it as some kind of data."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"It's a vibe. But it's also how a lot of people are choosing their tools right now."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Which is exactly why the security prediction matters. People pick the flashiest agent, then wonder why their data leaks."},{"host":"Eric","text":"One thing we do know: thirty-three engines just agreed to trust each other. That's a real test, not a tier list."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And that's Big Ideas for tonight. We'll be back with whatever the universe drops next."}]}