This is just the nose starship SN8.
Elon Musk
The starship is starting to look a lot more like a spaceship. SpaceX is building a series of spacecraft that it intends to send one day around the moon and all the way to Mars. Founder Elon Musk is the latest test craft, S.N. Gave one of our best looks at 8.
SpaceX is working towards a large test flight that will try to send the starship into the air for 8 miles (12.5 kilometers). This makes Previous flights have looked like rabbit-like hops.
Kasturi tweeted a stunning view of SN8 A huge increase over some very small looking people at a test stand of the SpaceX Development Facility in Boca Chika, Texas. “On the pad in South Texas,” Musk wrote.
While SpaceX has had success with its hops, it has also had some success Stunning looking test failure On the ground below. Kasturi also suggested in late October that a “Rapid unscrewed disassembly” (i.e., blow) can only occur outside the launch pad for SN8. “Fortunately, the SN9 is almost ready,” he said.
The goal is to eventually get the starship into orbit as the first major target to reach the solar system, but short test flights come first as the SpaceX spacecraft works and checks the Raptor engines that will power it.
S.N. The actual test flight of the 8 may take place as early as Tuesday, but we have seen many delays in the past. This is all part of normal operation when developing a new spacecraft. SpaceX intends to livestream the event.
SpaceX is rapidly building prototypes and has subsequent Starshipships to take the testing process forward no matter what happens with ambitious high-itude altitude efforts.
