{"id":112210,"date":"2020-08-30T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/starship-sn6-prepares-for-hop-super-heavy-is-coming"},"modified":"2020-08-30T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:25:19","slug":"starship-sn6-prepares-for-hop-super-heavy-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/starship-sn6-prepares-for-hop-super-heavy-is-coming","title":{"rendered":"Starship SN6 prepares for hop \u2014 Super Heavy is coming"},"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\/tVA01awAEBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Starship SN6 is aiming to conduct a 150-meter hop test on Sunday, just a few weeks after SN5 completed the first Starship prototype launch. SN6\u2019s test will be a near-mirror of SN5\u2019s short flight, with both prototypes aiming to refine SpaceX\u2019s launch and landing operations. Meanwhile, additional Starships continue to evolve, along with preparations for the Super Heavy booster, which \u2013 according to Chief Designer Elon Musk \u2013 could conduct an initial test hop by October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SN5 and SN6:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In another sign of SpaceX Boca Chica\u2019s production cadence, the allowance for SN6 to be ready to hop just weeks after SN5 was aided by having SN6 already assembled in the Mid Bay while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2020\/08\/starship-sn5-set-150-meter-flight-test\/\">SN5 was reaching 150 meters into the South Texas sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship SN6 is aiming to conduct a 150-meter hop test on Sunday, just a few weeks after SN5 completed the first Starship prototype launch. SN6\u2019s test will be a near-mirror of SN5\u2019s short flight, with both prototypes aiming to refine SpaceX\u2019s launch and landing operations. Meanwhile, additional Starships continue to evolve, along with preparations for [\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-112210","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\/112210","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=112210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}