SpaceX’s SN5 Starship prototype
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10Pointer
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Science & Technology
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14th Aug, 2020
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- It is a prototype of SpaceX’s unscrewed “Mars ship”. It is a stainless steel test.
- It is a part of the Starship spacecraft.
- The prototype recently completed its first test flight. It successfully flew to an altitude of over 500 feet for a little less than 60 seconds.
- Starship is a spacecraft and super-heavy booster rocket meant to act as a reusable transportation system for crew and cargo to the Earth’s orbit, Moon and Mars.
- SpaceX has described Starship as “the world’s most powerful launch vehicle” with an ability to carry over 100 metric tonnes to the Earth’s orbit.
- Starship can deliver satellites further and at lower marginal costs than SpaceX’s Falcon vehicles and it can ferry both cargo and crew to the International Space Station (ISS).
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