{"id":96359,"date":"2019-09-17T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos"},"modified":"2019-09-17T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T05:23:08","slug":"spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s orbital Starship prototype construction progress detailed in new photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"space-exploration-technologies\">SpaceX<\/a> is making progress assembling its Starship orbital spacecraft prototype, as seen in new photos shared by SpaceX CEO <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>. This full-scale testing version of the Starship will take over for the StarHopper, which was a scaled-down version used to test the Raptor engine initially with low-altitude \u201chop\u201d flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Starship Mk I Prototype and Mk II prototypes, which are under construction simultaneously at SpaceX facilities in South Texas and Florida, will be used to test flights at higher altitudes and higher speeds, and will use as many as three to six Raptor engines simultaneously, versus the single engine used with the StarHopper.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"spacex-2\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg\" alt=\"spacex 2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg 1222w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg?resize=150,125 150w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg?resize=300,250 300w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg?resize=768,641 768w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg?resize=680,568 680w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-orbital-starship-prototype-construction-progress-detailed-in-new-photos2.jpg?resize=50,42 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px)  100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is making progress assembling its Starship orbital spacecraft prototype, as seen in new photos shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. This full-scale testing version of the Starship will take over for the StarHopper, which was a scaled-down version used to test the Raptor engine initially with low-altitude \u201chop\u201d flights. The Starship Mk I Prototype [\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-96359","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\/96359","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=96359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}