First Successful Starhopper Hop(twitter.com)
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First Successful Starhopper Hop
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1154629726914220032
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Great to see the continous progress on the Starship project. This was only a small hop but an important test as a step to the real flight tests, which might be only days or a few weeks away, if no problem sends them back to the drawing board for an important component.
The most critical part right now would be the real-life performance and behavior of the new raptor engines.
According to Elon Musk next week we will see 200m hops. Exciting stuff!!
Best Youtube video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg71lUolnqc
The footage from a lot of sites is pretty bad because of the fog obscuring it. It's in the middle of the night too =/
The footage from a lot of sites is pretty bad because of the fog obscuring it. It's in the middle of the night too =/
Observation: Although the Starhopper is a purposefully-unspaceworthy tech demonstrator, it still does resemble a comic book alien rocket from the 1950s.