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SpaceX Starhopper Rocket Prototype Takes Giant Leap for Elon Musk’s Lifetime Goal of Colonizing Mars
After what SpaceX’s founder Elon Musk called an “embarrassing” glitch with Starhopper, an experimental rocket ship, the company pulled off an impressive launch and landing on 27th August, Tuesday.
TheSpaceX Starhopper rocket took to the skies for a second time, reaching a height of a small skyscraper before landing back on Earth. The flight demonstrated the vehicle’s ability to take off and land in a controlled manner, and it paves the way for more aggressive testing of the vehicle’s design in the months ahead, as Elon Musk’s company moves ever close to reaching the Red Planet.
“Congrats SpaceX team!!” Musk tweeted shortly after the attempt. “One day Starship will land on the rusty sands of Mars.”
Starhopper is a roughly 60-foot-tall (18 meters) vehicle and a squat steel prototype of a planned Mars launch system called Starship. It’s located at SpaceX’s rocket launch and development facility near Boca Chica Beach, Texas, at the southeastern tip of the state.
In this video Engineering Today will discuss SpaceX Starhopper rocket prototype which takes giant leap for Elon Musk’s dream to land on the rusty sands of Mars.
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