SpaceX's 1st Full-Size Starship Prototype Suffers Major Anomaly in Pressure Test

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SpaceX's 1st Full-Size Starship Prototype Suffers Major Anomaly in Pressure Test

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SpaceX's first full-size Starship prototype has apparently blown its top.The stainless-steel Starship Mk1 appeared to experience a major anomaly during a pressure test Wednesday (Nov. 20) in a seeming setback for a much-anticipated test flight later this year. SpaceX may decide to focus on developing more advanced prototypes rather than repair and retest the Mk1, company founder and CEO Elon Musk suggested via Twitter this afternoon. "Absolutely, but to move to Mk3 design. This had some value as a manufacturing pathfinder, but flight design is quite different," Musk wrote. He was responding to a tweet by "Everyday Astronaut" Tim Dodd, who opined that SpaceX might end up transitioning to the Mk2 or Mk3, and then asked Musk directly if the company plans to "just move on to Mk3." You can read the entire article and view the photos here, at:
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-p ... -test.html
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Re: SpaceX's 1st Full-Size Starship Prototype Suffers Major Anomaly in Pressure Test

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Here's another article from Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11 ... -big-deal/

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