SpaceX Starship Plans To Make Its First High Altitude Test Flight Next Week – Gizmodo Australia

SpaceX fired the engines on its Starship SN8 prototype on Tuesday evening, with billionaire CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the resultant good static fire produced during the final test had likely paved the way for the vehicle to take its first test flight sometime next week.
The proposed 5km test flight would exceed the previous record set for the craft, a hop test that maxed out at around 152.40 m.
In his tweet, Musk hinted that the test flights date for next week was still tentative, since a review…

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