SpaceX Reveals Starship Calendar

It happens.

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<p class = "canvas-atom web-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "In fact, according to a tweet from SpaceX Chief Executive Officer over the weekend, the first "unattached" Starhopper (ie, free flight) an attempt to take off and hover at an altitude of 20 meters before landing could take place as early as 16 July. "data-reactid =" 15 "> In fact, according to a tweet from the CEO of SpaceX this weekend, the first attempt at takeoff and hover at an altitude of 20 meters before the landing could happen could be from July 16th.

And that's just the beginning.

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With a height of 20 meters and a polished stainless steel shell 30 feet in diameter, Starhopper looks nothing like a huge shiny silver ball on its launching pad, which targets the stars.

Starhopper's flight tests, under construction as two separate prototypes at two separate sites, may have started in April. That was the date of Starhopper's first "static" test on its Raptor engines, worth $ 2 million, conducted with Starhopper firmly tied to the ground and unable to fly. But, citing an ambitious launch schedule, Musk said he hoped Starhopper would expand 20 kilometers from the sky in "a few months".

Assuming this week's test goes well, several jumps are likely "later this year," said Jonathan Hofeller, Vice President of SpaceX Commercial Sales. It is even possible that Starhopper "goes into orbit … this year".

Then come the tests of a "full stack" – a complete prototype of the Starship – in 2020, followed by commercial operations as early as 2021. Hofeller recently confirmed that SpaceX was in talks with three different telecom companies to determine who might do it. want to become Starship's first customer during an orbital launch in 2021.

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<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Designed to support 100 settlers on MarsStarhopper's starship spacecraft is perhaps the best hope for humanity to colonize the red planet – or even to visit it. For investors in SpaceX, however (and you can be one and do not even know it), Starship has larger, even existential implications. "Data-reactid =" 35 "> Designed with the ability to carry 100 settlers on Mars, Starhopper's Starship spacecraft is probably the best hope humanity has for colonizing the Red Planet – or even simply visiting it For investors in SpaceX, though (and you may be one and do not even know it), Starship has more important, even existential implications.

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<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "To remedy this, the company hopes to gain the profits of which he will need to fund a mission on Mars by developing a global system of 12,000 satellites offering high speed internet. Starship, with its huge internal charging capacity and extremely low orbit payload per kilogram, offers the company the best chance of putting this system into service before anyone can defeat it. "Data-reactid =" 37 "> To To remedy this, the company hopes to release the benefits needed to finance a mission on Mars by developing a global system of 12,000 satellites offering a high-speed Internet connection Starship, with its capacity huge internal storage and its extremely low price per kilogram in orbit, offers the company every chance to put this system into service before anyone can beat it.

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And the possibilities could not even stop there. In what I believe to be the first mention of this idea, Hofeller revealed in June that SpaceX was considering a brand new mission for Starship once it would be up and running.

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