SpaceX successfully launched and landed its Starhopper rocket-ship prototype in South Texas on Tuesday, a key step in the company’s quest to reach Mars. Before Starhopper’s final flight, though, the Federal Aviation Administration asked for “more hazard analysis” – likely because the launch site is near a small hamlet called […]
SpaceX’s prototype rocket Starhopper aborted its test flight Monday with less than a second left on the countdown. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that there had been a wiring problem with the engine’s igniters and that the flight would take place Tuesday instead. Responding to a tweet from a tech blogger, […]
SpaceX launched an experimental rocket ship called Starhopper in South Texas on Tuesday. The flight of Starhopper took the vehicle roughly 492 feet (150 meters) into the sky and lasted about a minute. Starhopper also used its single Raptor rocket engine to fly over to a beachside landing pad a […]
SpaceX plans to try launching and landing a Mars rocket prototype on Monday night in South Texas. Ahead of the launch of the vehicle, called Starhopper, police handed out printed notices to a small residential community nearby, warning of a possible “overpressure event” (i.e. an explosion). A 27-year resident of […]
SpaceX is working to develop an ultra-low-cost launch system called Starship that could reach the moon and Mars. Company founder Elon Musk said progress on the system has been exponential in recent months. The company’s first prototype of the rocket ship, called Starhopper, has served as an essential test bed […]
SpaceX successfully launched and landed a Mars rocket prototype on Thursday night in south Texas. The launch of the vehicle, called Starhopper, ignited several brush fires, which emergency workers quickly addressed. But embers rekindled the fire overnight, and it spread into a nearby wildlife refuge. SpaceX says the fire is […]
SpaceX completed a successful test flight of its Starhopper prototype vehicle on Thursday night. CEO Elon Musk tweeted videos of the 20-second flight both from a camera mounted just above the vehicle’s engine and from a drone. Musk tweeted Starhopper would attempt another “hop” in about a week or two […]
SpaceX successfully launched, hovered, and landed a small steel rocket ship called Starhopper on Thursday. The vehicle is an early prototype of Starship: a far larger system that’s designed to send people to the moon and Mars. Starhopper lifted off at around 11:45 p.m. ET (10:45 p.m. CT), flew for […]
SpaceX tried to launch, hover, and land a small steel rocket ship called Starhopper on Wednesday in South Texas. The vehicle is an early prototype of Starship, a far larger system designed to send people to the moon and Mars. Just after Starhopper’s engines ignited, engineers aborted the launch and […]
SpaceX test-fired a small rocket ship in Texas on Tuesday night. The test was meant to set the stage for a bigger “hop-and-hover” launch. However, a huge fireball erupted around the vehicle, called Starhopper, a few minutes after the test. Some locals recorded video of the incident during a live […]
SpaceX plans to launch a small rocket ship called Starhopper in Texas on Wednesday. Although the vehicle was briefly engulfed by a fireball last week, it emerged mostly undamaged. Starhopper is a test bed for a much larger vehicle, called Starship, which is being designed to send people to the […]
SpaceX recently built a stout and shiny rocket ship called Starhopper near Boca Chica Village, Texas. The vehicle is a crude prototype for a much larger vehicle designed to reach Mars, called Starship. Elon Musk, the rocket company’s founder, says engineers will attempt to launch Starhopper about 65 feet (20 […]
Space X is testing the concepts and ideas behind StarShip, its next big rocket, in south Texas. The multibillion-dollar project includes a prototype rocket called the Starhopper to test the enormous new rapper engines that will be propelling future spacecraft. With the StarShip, Elon Musk’s company plans to send people […]
SpaceX on Wednesday fired up what its founder, Elon Musk, called its “Starhopper” prototype for the first time. Starhopper – a roughly 60-foot-tall prototype of a Mars-capable vehicle, called Starship – fired its single engine for about one second, shortly before 8 p.m. CDT. A truck-size Raptor rocket engine shot […]
