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SpaceX completes another successful short test flight of its Starship spacecraft prototype – Yahoo Finance Australia
SpaceX has done it again – a second ‘hop’ flight in under a month for its Starship prototype. This was a 150 meter (just under 500 foot) test flight from its Boca Chica, Texas development site. The prototype used in this instance was SN6, a more recent mod…
SpaceX has done it again a second ‘hop’ flight in under a month for its Starship prototype. This was a 150 meter (just under 500 foot) test flight from its Boca Chica, Texas development site. The prototype used in this instance was SN6, a more recent model than the SN5 test article that SpaceX used to complete a similar test at the beginning of August.
The hop flight is a key part of its testing program for Starship, and its Raptor engine. These prototypes are equipped with only one such engine…
