SpaceX prototype spaceship ``Starship SN 5'' succeeded in flight test at altitude 150 m



' Starship ' is a full-body stainless steel spacecraft capable of carrying more than 100 people, which will be operated by SpaceX's planned manned space flight. The 150-meter flight test of this Starship prototype, the SN5, was successful on August 4, 2020 local time.

Starship SN5 | 150m Hop
https://spacelaunchnow.me/launch/starship-sn5-150m-hop/

Starship SN5 conducts successful 150-meter flight test-NASASpaceFlight.com
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/08/starship-sn5-set-150-meter-flight-test/

The moment when Starship SN5 succeeds in the 150m flight test can be confirmed in the following movie at around 1 hour 15 minutes 10 seconds.

Starship SN5 Successfully Completes 150-Meter Hop in Boca Chica, Texas-YouTube



SpaceX, which has developed the reusable rockets Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy , has long planned to develop a super-large rocket 'Starship', aiming to carry more than 100 people to the moon and Mars in the future.

What kind of rocket is SpaceX's new starship 'Starship' aiming to carry more than 100 people to the moon and Mars? -GIGAZINE



SpaceX pioneered the development of Starship in 2019 by developing a small prototype of the spacecraft, the Starhopper. The Starhopper equipped with the liquid fuel rocket engine `` Raptor '' developed by SpaceX was sometimes a fireman during the test, but in August 2019 it succeeded in the test of flying up to 150 meters above the sky and re-landing. did.

SpaceX's spaceship ``Starhopper'' turned into a fireman, succeeded in flying from the last test-GIGAZINE



In September 2019, a new prototype ' Starship Mk1 ' was announced, but the Starship Mk1 exploded during the cryogenic load test conducted in November of the same year.



After that, the Starship Mk2 was planned to be made, but it was canceled, and the Starship Mk3 was announced after changing the name to 'Starship SN1'. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the SN Leeds will undergo minor version upgrades, and will eventually become 'Starship version 1.0' when they finally reach SN20.



However, in February 2020, the SN1 will explode in the fuel tank pressure test. Similarly, the following SN2 and SN3 could not pass the pressure test.



When the SN3 failed the pressure test in April 2020, Mask CEO stated that 'some valves had a low temperature leak. We plan to fix and re-test immediately.' It was



As it says, the SN4 passed the pressure test on May 1, 2020, but failed in the engine combustion test conducted on the same month 30 and caused a big explosion.



Then, the subsequently developed SN5 finally cleared the combustion test conducted on July 30, 2020, and succeeded in this 150-meter flight test. Originally, the 150-meter flight test was scheduled to be performed on August 3, but due to an error, it was canceled just before the launch countdown. According to Musk CEO, the content of the error was that the turbo pump rotation start valve of the Raptor engine did not open.

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