{"id":441796,"date":"2020-08-31T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/spacex-is-planning-to-fly-its-starship-prototype-this-weekend.php"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:56:45","slug":"spacex-is-planning-to-fly-its-starship-prototype-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/spacex-is-planning-to-fly-its-starship-prototype-this-weekend.php","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/08\/space-planning-fly-starship-prototype-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"After its first successful flight test of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Hop on Pop<\/h2><p>After its <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacexs-starhopper-aces-test-flight-500-feet\">first successful flight test<\/a> of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday.<\/p><p>According to CEO Elon Musk, this will be another l0w altitude test, intended to work out the bugs before moving on to more ambitious launches.<\/p><blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&rsquo;ll do several short hops to smooth out launch process, then go high altitude with body flaps<\/p><p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1290826885375696899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><h2>Rocket Man<\/h2><p>It&rsquo;ll be a test of SpaceX&rsquo;s SN6 Starship prototype, a squat metallic tank that the company hopes to eventually refine into a scifi-esque vehicle intended to move cargo or humans to the Moon, Mars or beyond.<\/p><p>The launch is currently slated for sometime after 9am EST, from SpaceX&rsquo;s facility in Bocha Chica, Texas.<\/p><p><span>&ldquo;Good chance something will slip, but, yeah, Sunday is intense,&rdquo; Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1299397894135373824\">tweeted<\/a> about the busy day of SpaceX launches.<\/span><\/p><p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/spacex-hopes-to-hop-another-starship-prototype-this-weekend\/\">SpaceX hopes to &lsquo;hop&rsquo; another Starship prototype this weekend<\/a> [<em>CNET<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on SpaceX: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/astronomers-slam-spacex-growing-starlink-satellite-constellation\"><em>Astronomers Slam SpaceX&rsquo;s Growing Starlink Satellite Constellation<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/space-planning-fly-starship-prototype\">SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>View post:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/space-planning-fly-starship-prototype\" title=\"SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend\">SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hop on Pop After its first successful flight test of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday. According to CEO Elon Musk, this will be another l0w altitude test, intended to work out the bugs before moving on to more ambitious launches. We\u2019ll do several short hops to smooth out launch process, then go high altitude with body flaps \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 5, 2020 Rocket Man It\u2019ll be a test of SpaceX\u2019s SN6 Starship prototype, a squat metallic tank that the company hopes to eventually refine into a scifi-esque vehicle intended to move cargo or humans to the Moon, Mars or beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/spacex-is-planning-to-fly-its-starship-prototype-this-weekend.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}