{"id":104878,"date":"2020-04-06T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/elon-musk-shares-what-caused-the-starship-sn3-prototype-to-collapse-during-a-pressure-test"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:43:40","slug":"elon-musk-shares-what-caused-the-starship-sn3-prototype-to-collapse-during-a-pressure-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/elon-musk-shares-what-caused-the-starship-sn3-prototype-to-collapse-during-a-pressure-test","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk shares what caused the Starship SN3 prototype to collapse during a pressure test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-shares-what-caused-the-starship-sn3-prototype-to-collapse-during-a-pressure-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured Image Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpacePadreIsle\/status\/1246172904548597760?s=19\">@SpacePadreIsle<\/a><\/strong> via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is in the process of developing a gigantic Starship that will one day perform voyages to the moon and Mars. The first test prototypes are under construction at the company\u2019s South Texas facility in Boca Chica Beach. On April 2nd, engineers conducted a cryogenic pressure test on, the company\u2019s third Starship prototype this year. The vehicle was loaded with cryogenic (super cold) liquid nitrogen, and pressurized in order to test out how much pressure the stainless-steel structure could withstand. During the test, the craft is pressurized to the max, as engineers inspect for leaks and hope the stainless-steel structure withstands a pressure strength between 6 and ~8.5 bar. This test aims to put the vehicle into conditions similar to those it would experience during a spaceflight. Though, Thursday\u2019s test did not go as planned. The vehicle collapsed, sending shattered steel parts flying off the launch pad\u2019s stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image Source: @SpacePadreIsle via Twitter. SpaceX is in the process of developing a gigantic Starship that will one day perform voyages to the moon and Mars. The first test prototypes are under construction at the company\u2019s South Texas facility in Boca Chica Beach. On April 2nd, engineers conducted a cryogenic pressure test on, the [\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-104878","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\/104878","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=104878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}