Science & Planet SpaceX – the space of Teslabaas Elon Musk – is fully engaged with the construction of a testruimteschip for a mission to Mars. This is evident from images that last weekend, the round did on social media and were taken in Boca Chica, Texas, where SpaceX a lanceringsbasis acceleration. Musk himself told this morning, meanwhile, also images from the site.
Stainless Steel Starship pic.twitter.com/rRoiEKKrYc
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The testruimteschip is a basic version of the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which had 100 passengers and 150 tons of cargo to Mars would need to bring. According to Elon Musk would be the prototype – that he is the ‘test hopper’ – in march or april of next year can be launched.
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Musk had previously been understood to mean that tests with the prototype – ‘hops’, because it comes to launches, the rocket is not in an orbit around the earth – a great step in the direction of the construction of the Big Falcon Rocket. Which will consist of a Starship 55 meters high and 9 meters wide, that was launched will be with the Super Heavy-raketbooster of 67 meters high. (read on below)
