{"id":3227,"date":"2019-08-28T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2024-08-08T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T00:27:22","slug":"spacexs-starhopper-nails-first-major-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/spacexs-starhopper-nails-first-major-test\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s Starhopper Nails First Major Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today SpaceX launched and landed their prototype Starship spaceship called &#8220;Starhopper&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-In-Flight-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3228\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-In-Flight-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-In-Flight-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-In-Flight-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking off on a single Raptor engine it flew around 150 metres into the air, flew across to the nearby landing pad and then landed all without a hitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-Landing-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3229\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-Landing-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-Landing-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-Landing-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the flight you could see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shock_diamond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mach diamonds<\/a> coming from the rocket engine on the background of a beautiful blue sky. In fact, they almost made launching and landing what looks basically like a water tower &#8220;too easy&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch the full test below from SpaceX&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bYb3bfA6_sQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Big congratulations to SpaceX on this huge milestone and we can&#8217;t wait to see more, higher tests in the coming months. It&#8217;s also expected that next year we&#8217;ll get to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/spacex-sees-2020-bfr-orbital-tests-coo-backs-musk-on-2019-short-hops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starship Orbital test flights<\/a> too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today SpaceX launched and landed their prototype Starship spaceship called &#8220;Starhopper&#8221; with amazing grace and ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,125,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-space","category-future"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Starhopper-In-Flight.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92j6e-Q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshoolman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}