Watch SpaceX’s Starship attempt high-altitude flight (Update: womp womp)

Posted on 08/12/2020 by Engadget

Taking off from Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX plans to launch its 160-foot tall prototype Starship spacecraft to a height of 12.5km (41,000 feet) above the surface and safely return to its launch pad. The company has set a launch window beginning at 5:30...

SpaceX’s first high-altitude Starship test could happen Tuesday

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Engadget

We’ve seen some small hops, but the SpaceX Starship is ready to make a much larger leap. The SN8 prototype is on the launch pad in Boca Chica, TX, and SpaceX has confirmed that its first high-altitude test flight could take place as soon as Tuesday,...

SpaceX prepares Starship SN8 prototype for high-altitude test flight

Posted on 25/11/2020 by Engadget

In September 2019 Elon Musk said he hoped SpaceX would be able to perform an orbital test of its Starship vehicle within six months, and while that didn’t happen the company is apparently ready to perform a high-altitude flight test. In a tweet, the...

SpaceX scales back plans for Starship’s first high-altitude flight

Posted on 26/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

You might want to dial back your expectations for the first high-altitude SpaceX Starship flight. Elon Musk now says the flight with the SN8 prototype will top out at 15km, or close to 50,000ft, instead of the 18km and 60,000ft he’d mentioned earlier...

SpaceX’s next Starship prototype will try a 60,000-foot return flight

Posted on 13/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

SpaceX is nearly done with short-hop Starship test flights. Elon Musk has shared (via TechCrunch) that the company’s SN8 Starship prototype should be finished in “about a week,” and will conduct Starship’s first high-altitude flight. After static fir...

SpaceX sends its Starship on a second 150m test flight

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

About a month ago, SpaceX pulled off a first hop test for one of its Starship prototypes, and now it has repeated the feat. SN6 looks a lot like its predecessor SN5, with both missing a nose cone and fins, which makes them resemble a rocket-powered s...

SpaceX’s Starship prototype flies hundreds of feet for the first time

Posted on 05/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Almost a year after we saw SpaceX’s ‘Starhopper’ test vehicle make a short trip into the air, the company has successfully flown and landed a full-size Starship prototype. The SN5 vehicle is missing its nose cone, so it’s a bit like a taller “flying...

After Starship test fire Elon Musk expects 150m hop ‘soon’

Posted on 31/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Elon Musk’s hopes for Starship to reach orbit before this spring didn’t quite pan out, but a recent test firing has the SpaceX CEO expecting to see the company’s new vehicle take flight shortly. On Thursday he tweeted that its new SN5 build completed...

SpaceX plans seaborne spaceports for Mars missions and hypersonic flights

Posted on 16/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Don’t think SpaceX is toning down its spaceflight ambitions in light of the pandemic — if anything, the company is ramping things up. Elon Musk has confirmed a SpaceXFleet scoop (via TechCrunch) that SpaceX is hiring staff to help build “floating, su...

Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX’s ‘top priority’ from now on

Posted on 07/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Don’t expect SpaceX to lavish much more attention on Crew Dragon now that it has launched people into orbit. CNBC said it had obtained email from Elon Musk asking staff to treat Starship as the “top SpaceX priority,” pushing them to “dramatically and...

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