{"id":112302,"date":"2020-09-01T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/spacex-plans-to-conduct-hundreds-of-starship-missions-before-launching-humans"},"modified":"2020-09-01T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T06:23:22","slug":"spacex-plans-to-conduct-hundreds-of-starship-missions-before-launching-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/spacex-plans-to-conduct-hundreds-of-starship-missions-before-launching-humans","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to conduct \u2018hundreds\u2019 of Starship missions before launching humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-plans-to-conduct-hundreds-of-starship-missions-before-launching-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured Image Source: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is building Starship in South Texas at Boca Chica Beach. The aerospace company\u2019s founder Chief Engineer Elon Musk envisions developing a fully reusable Starship capable of transporting one hundred passengers to Mars. During the <em>Humans To Mars<\/em> conference on Monday, he shared SpaceX will have to conduct \u2018hundreds of missions\u2019 before launching astronauts aboard. \u2013 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to first make the thing work. [\u2026] Do hundreds of missions with satellites before we put people on board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple stainless-steel Starship prototypes are under assembly and undergoing testing at a small village where Musk envisions building the \u2018Gateway to Mars\u2019 spaceport. Last month, SpaceX successfully conducted a low-altitude test flight of a scaled-down Starship prototype. The vehicle soared 150-meters off the ground powered by a single Raptor engine. The company aims to make flying stainless-steel vehicles routine in Texas before attempting to launch a Starship prototype to orbit. \u201cWe\u2019re making good progress. The thing that we\u2019re really making progress on with Starship is the production system,\u201d Musk told the conference\u2019s host. \u201cThe thing that really impedes progress on Starship is the production system \u2026 A year ago, there was almost nothing there and now we\u2019ve got quite a lot of production capability. So, we\u2019re rapidly making more and more ships.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured Image Source: SpaceX SpaceX is building Starship in South Texas at Boca Chica Beach. The aerospace company\u2019s founder Chief Engineer Elon Musk envisions developing a fully reusable Starship capable of transporting one hundred passengers to Mars. During the Humans To Mars conference on Monday, he shared SpaceX will have to conduct \u2018hundreds of missions\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112302","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=112302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}