Watch the SpaceX Starhopper soar above Texas
The craft, called Starhopper, fired up its engine for roughly one minute and soared high above the South Texas landscape before landing upright nearby on Tuesday evening.Starhopper has undergone a series of very brief"hop tests." They're meant to collect data and help engineers hash out how they'll land a spacecraft on another planet.Tuesday's"hop" was by far the highest.
— Elon Musk August 27, 2019 Musk also previously confirmed on Twitter that the latest test would be the last for this Starhopper.Starhopper is an early precursor to Starship, a spaceship design proposed by Musk that would blast off from Earth riding atop an enormous rocket, called Super Heavy, which is slated to be by far the most powerful launch vehicle ever created. The Starship and Super Heavy system is at the core of SpaceX stated mission: to colonize Mars.
— Jackie Wattles August 27, 2019 "Hop tests" are not new for the company. SpaceX used another prototype vehicle, called Grasshopper, to conduct similar tests in the years before the company figured out how to land its Falcon 9 rockets safely back on Earth after launching.
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