SpaceX’s First Starship SN5 150m Hop Test Flight Video (Is Mars Near?)

The SpaceX Starship is a fully-reusable launch vehicle and spacecraft that is being privately developed by SpaceX. It is designed to be a long-duration cargo and passenger-carrying spacecraft. The development of the Starship began around 2012.

While the Starship program had only a small development team during the early years, and a larger development and build team since late 2018, Musk made Starship the top SpaceX development priority following the first human spaceflight launch of Crew Dragon in May 2020, except for anything related to reduction of crew return risk. In March 2020, Musk had set "an aspirational goal" of using SN5 or SN6 to conduct an orbital flight of Starship before the end of 2020. After a successful static fire test on 30 July 2020 SN5 completed a 150-meter flight on 4 August 2020. SN5 may have a second test flight to follow.

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