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A prototype of SpaceX's next rocket, "Starship ", is ready for his first test in Texas." Space boss Elon Musk on Thursday released a photo of the spacecraft whose steel cladding resembles the aesthetics of early rockets.
Elon Musk had previously announced that Starship would not be carbon fiber, a lighter material because less resistant than steel to extreme temperatures, hot and cold.
Starship will not have the usual appearance rockets, painted white in the case of SpaceX. "The skin will be too hot for painting. Stainless steel finish. Maximum reflectivity, "the tycoon wrote on Twitter.
" The Starship will look like cash, "he said in another tweet.
The Texas-based prototype, in the Boca Chica village, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, has a diameter of nine meters, like the real rocket, but is smaller.
The test was announced for March or April: the rocket will take off at an altitude of a few kilometers and, if all goes well, it will land again.
A prototype of orbital flight had been promised for June.For this, a main engine or booster in the first stage, called "Super Heavy ", will reinforce Starship.
This new rocket, made up of Starship and Super Heavy, will eventually become SpaceX's one and only launcher and bring the astronauts one day to the Moon, or even Mars, according to the plans of Musk.
The company uses and reuses current Falcon 9.
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