{"id":94760,"date":"2019-08-14T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/spacexs-starhopper-prototype-is-ready-for-its-biggest-hop-test"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T17:02:44","slug":"spacexs-starhopper-prototype-is-ready-for-its-biggest-hop-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/spacexs-starhopper-prototype-is-ready-for-its-biggest-hop-test","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Starhopper Prototype Is Ready for Its Biggest Hop Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-starhopper-prototype-is-ready-for-its-biggest-hop-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s silver Starhopper prototype could complete its biggest hop test this weekend, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Starhopper, which is an early prototype for SpaceX\u2019s Starship spacecraft, has completed a couple of tests so far. According to Musk, the Starhopper\u2019s next challenge will be to fly roughly 650 feet off the ground. Musk recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1159969069740597248?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> that the prototype\u2019s next major hop could take place on Aug. 16, Aug. 17, or Aug. 18, as long as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gives SpaceX permission to conduct the test flight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Just spoke with FAA, so hopefully yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s silver Starhopper prototype could complete its biggest hop test this weekend, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Starhopper, which is an early prototype for SpaceX\u2019s Starship spacecraft, has completed a couple of tests so far. According to Musk, the Starhopper\u2019s next challenge will be to fly roughly 650 feet off the ground. Musk recently [\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-94760","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\/94760","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=94760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}