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testing with the test
article Starhopper in 2019,
including two
short hops with the
article tethered to the ground.
Starhopper and two
early ship prototypes...
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fabrication of the
first 9 m-diameter (30 ft)
prototype test vehicle,
Starhopper,
which was
tested and
flown March–August 2019.
Through 2021, additional...
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rocket evolved through many
design and name changes. On July 25, 2019, the
Starhopper prototype performed the
first successful flight at
SpaceX Starbase near...
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steel test article—Starship Hopper, Hopper, Hoppy, or
Starhopper—began at Boca
Chica in 2018.
Starhopper had a
single engine and was test
flown to develop...
- 2021.
Retrieved February 10, 2021. Berger, Eric (August 28, 2019). "
Starhopper aces test, sets up full-scale
prototype flights this year". Ars Technica...
- 25 July 2019 when
SpaceX flew
their Raptor methalox FFSC
engine on the
Starhopper test rocket, at
their South Texas Launch Site. As of
January 2025, the...
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Current Starship prototypes first stage booster upper stage Retired Gr****hopper F9R Dev1† F9R Dev2*
DragonFly Starhopper...
- late 2016, and the
engine flew for the
first time in 2019,
powering the
Starhopper vehicle to an
altitude of 20 m (66 ft).
SpaceX has
developed the Dragon...
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first tests started with the
construction of the
first prototype in 2018,
Starhopper,
which performed several static fires and two
successful low-altitude...
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Current Starship prototypes first stage booster upper stage Retired Gr****hopper F9R Dev1† F9R Dev2*
DragonFly Starhopper...
