{"id":104708,"date":"2020-04-03T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/spacex-loses-its-third-starship-prototype-during-a-cryogenic-test"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:06:33","slug":"spacex-loses-its-third-starship-prototype-during-a-cryogenic-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/spacex-loses-its-third-starship-prototype-during-a-cryogenic-test","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryogenic test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFXQ5SRCy74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the failure, SpaceX\u2019s founder and chief engineer, Elon Musk, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1246002903480856576\">said on Twitter<\/a>, \u201cWe will see what data review says in the morning, but this may have been a test configuration mistake.\u201d A testing issue would be good in the sense that it means the vehicle itself performed well, and the problem can be more easily addressed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time a Starship has failed during these proof tests that precede engine tests and, potentially flight tests. Multiple sources indicated that had these preliminary tests succeeded, SN3 would have attempted a 150-meter flight test as early as next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of SpaceX\u2019s efforts to test full-size Starships to date:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the failure, SpaceX\u2019s founder and chief engineer, Elon Musk, said on Twitter, \u201cWe will see what data review says in the morning, but this may have been a test configuration mistake.\u201d A testing issue would be good in the sense that it means the vehicle itself performed well, and the problem can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}