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SpaceX’s Starship Vehicle Aces First Test Flight – ENGINEERING.com
Massive spacecraft could transport 100 passengers at a time to Mars.
Not content with having one successful space transport in the Crew Dragon, SpaceX is cruising ahead with another—bigger—spaceship: the Starship. And the vehicle recently passed a significant milestone: its first flight.
One of the prototypes, called SN5, completed a hop test, launching 500 feet above the ground before coming back down to land. The entire flight lasted less than a minute. While SN5 is essentially just a flying cylinder—smaller than the final Starship will be and powered by only …
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