27 April 2020
SpaceX's first full-scale Starship passes key test
... the entrepreneur hopes will one day lead to a successful mission to Mars, became SpaceX’s first full-scale Starship prototype to pass a cryogenic proof test at the company’s launch site in Boca Chica, Texas on Sunday. The cryogenic...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
... pad at sea is seen as a strategic move by SpaceX to facilitate frequent launches of its super heavy lift launch vehicle, Starship, to avoid noise concerns by the general public. Work to modify the offshore platforms is now underway, which have...
30 September 2019
Elon Musk unveils SpaceX's massive new Starship
...this could increase substantially for the new version of Starship and its Super Heavy booster, which could have ... knows, but Musk has not ambivalent over the ship’s future. “Starship will allow us to inhabit other worlds," Musk wrote on Twitter Friday...
10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
... than previous hops and skimming the stratosphere. Earlier this year, SN5 and SN6 prototypes of the Starship rocket carried out short 500-foot test flights, but Wednesday's test was intended to reach 41,000...
28 August 2019
SpaceX's Skyhopper impresses with its highest test flight
...War’s R2D2 character. It is a sub-scale version of the Starship’s propulsion system, that will one day loft the 100-passenger ... single one. If everything goes well with the test campaign, Starship and Super Heavy could be ready to fly as early as 2021...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
... to reach Mars with ever increasing ambitious flight tests of its Starship rocket. Built in a few weeks by SpaceX teams on the...in another tweet today. SpaceX are already building a new Starship – SN8 – out of an entirely different steel alloy designed...
