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Boca work continues as SpaceX marks anniversary of Starhopper’s final flight – NASASpaceflight.com

One year after Starhopper’s final flight, SpaceX’s Starship launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, continues…

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One year after Starhopper’s final flight, SpaceX’s Starship launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, continues to evolve in order to facilitate prototype development and testing.
Starhopper was the first SpaceX vehicle to use its new launch facility in Boca Chica — located east of Boca Chica Village and near the beach on the Gulf of Mexico — and served as the first in-flight test article for SpaceX’s next-generation Raptor engine, a full-flow, staged combustion cycle engine that runs on liquid oxygen …

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