SpaceX’s Starhopper Engulfed by Fireball During Test

By Hailey Rose McLaughlin
Jul 17, 2019 10:06 PMDec 23, 2019 5:09 AM
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Starhopper sits at a test site in Texas earlier this year. (Credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX)

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On Tuesday, SpaceX ran its second test of Starhopper, the prototype for their enormous future passenger spacecraft. The static fire test was meant to measure the Raptor engines that power the craft. But at the end of the five second test, Starhopper was instead surrounded by an enormous fireball, as shown in a video from the rural Texas test site gathered by Everyday Astronaut.

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