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SpaceX Successfully Completes 150 Meter Starhopper Test
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| 08/27/19
| SpaceX
Posted on 08/27/2019 3:45:43 PM PDT by Moonman62
The test was done in Boca Chica, TX.
The rocket body was built by a company that builds water towers.
The rocket engine was built by SpaceX and is the most advanced in the world.
SpaceX is building two Starship orbital prototypes, one in Boca Chica, and the other in Cocoa, FL. They should fly by the end of the year.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; musk; raptor; spacex; starhopper; starship
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:45:43 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
To: Moonman62
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:46:52 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: Moonman62
Watched it live.
It was awesome.
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:49:26 PM PDT
by
tennmountainman
(Liberals Are Baby Killers)
To: Moonman62
Amazing to watch. Go SpaceX!!!
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:49:51 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Looked higher than 150 meters but who cares...
Landed on the spot!
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:51:17 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Looked higher than 150 meters but who cares...
Landed on the spot!
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:51:49 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Moonman62
Is this a first stage of what will be a multi stage rocket?
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:53:00 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: tet68
Yes, I’m excited!!!
Now if ISRO can just pull of the moon landing.
Important mile stones are being made.
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:53:22 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Moonman62
Oddly enough, it looks like something from the old Buck Rogers serials.
CC
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:54:22 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: Rebelbase
This is a prototype of the bottom part of the second stage of a two stage rocket called Starship that will have more lifting capability than the Saturn V.
The second stage of Starship is about the same height as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 but a much wider diameter.
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posted on
08/27/2019 3:59:13 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: Celtic Conservative
Yes.
It is made out of stainless steel.
The other prototypes and the production version will also be stainless steel.
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:00:29 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: Rebelbase
Here’s a video of the second stage orbital prototype being built in Cocoa, FL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7N8DpB0HeQ
The shorter one will be stacked on the taller one to make the Starship which is only the second stage of the finished rocket.
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:05:58 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Charity comes from wealth.)
To: Moonman62
Why does Starhopper remind me of Obadiah Stane in his Evil Ironman suit?
To: Regulator
Has kind of a steampunk look!
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:25:27 PM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Moonman62
The DC-3 was sweet. Loved it. And I’d love to visit Greenland... er, I mean, Trumpland.
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:28:55 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
To: Moonman62
Thing looks like one of those 1930’s comic book rockets.
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:36:10 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: 6ppc
To: Rebelbase
No. It a test bed for the engine and the guidance control system and software for the thrust vectoring.
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:45:56 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: Moonman62
Interesting ... but, when do we get our Imperial Shuttles we were promised back in the 60’s?
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posted on
08/27/2019 4:58:26 PM PDT
by
CapnJack
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