05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
... tweet today. SpaceX are already building a new Starship – SN8 – out of an entirely different steel alloy designed to make...sturdier than they already are, says Eric Ralph at Teslarati. SN8 is expected to feature three Raptor engines, a nose cone...
10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
... test flight of SpaceX's prototype SN8 rocket ended disastrously when a momentary... vehicle (including its body flaps) to how the vehicle manages propellant transition. SN8 will also attempt to perform a landing flip maneuver, which would be a ...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
... show webcast from Berlin, Germany in November last year. Currently up to its ninth iteration (SN9), its predecessor, SN8, recently performed its first high-altitude flight before crash landing and exploding as a brilliant fireball. SN9...
03 March 2021
Japanese billionaire offers space seats on his private lunar trip
... and one day onto Mars. Starship prototypes are now on their tenth iteration following a crash of both SN8 and SN9 while attempting to land after test launches from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica...
