Take a look at the Starship prototype Elon Musk's SpaceX is building. (via CNBCMakeIt)
SpaceX is currently building orbital Starship prototypes at facilities in Texas and Florida, and Musk on Monday tweeted a few photos of the progress at the former site.
"Just left Starship Texas build site. Very proud of progress SpaceX team has made!" Musk wrote in the tweet, which also features four photos of what Musk says is a nine-meter wide dome-shaped bulkhead as it's prepared to be placed atop the stainless steel cylindrical frame of the prototype spacecraft.
SpaceX had a successful launch and landing flight test for its Starhopper rocket in July, a short test in which the prototype rocket hovered several dozen feet in the air before landing again at a SpaceX facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The next test for therocket, which will look to fly more than 650 feet next time, could come sometime in August, Musk said in a tweet.
The Starhopper rocket is essentially a scaled-down version of the eventual SpaceX Starship, powered by one Raptor engine whereas the Starship will have three Raptor engines to make it capable of long-distance space flight (and the Super Heavy booster that will launch the spacecraft will have up to
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