{"id":88517,"date":"2019-03-09T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-starship-prototype-moved-to-launch-bad-on-new-rocket-transporter"},"modified":"2019-03-09T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:42:25","slug":"spacexs-starship-prototype-moved-to-launch-bad-on-new-rocket-transporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spacexs-starship-prototype-moved-to-launch-bad-on-new-rocket-transporter","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starship prototype moved to launch bad on new rocket transporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starship-prototype-moved-to-launch-bad-on-new-rocket-transporter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last two or so weeks, SpaceX engineers and technicians have continued to make progress on the company\u2019s first full-scale Starship prototype, intended to support experimental suborbital hop tests as early as March or April.<\/p>\n<p>That work reached a peak on March 8th when the massive Starhopper was transported from build site to launch pad on a brand new transporter that was delivered and assembled barely 48 hours prior. Ahead of the suborbital prototype\u2019s move, work has been ongoing to construct a replacement fairing for the partial-fidelity vehicle, although there is a chance that the new BFR-related stainless steel sections being assembled could be the start of the first orbital Starship prototype.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-launch-pad-transport\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-launch-pad-transport\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two or so weeks, SpaceX engineers and technicians have continued to make progress on the company\u2019s first full-scale Starship prototype, intended to support experimental suborbital hop tests as early as March or April. That work reached a peak on March 8th when the massive Starhopper was transported from build site to launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}