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Forum: Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic: [Discuss] SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 07-25-2019 08:23 AM Starhopper ignited its Raptor engine for about 3 seconds at SpaceX's Boca Chica test site in South Texas on Wednesday (July 24), but the vehicle [URL=https://www.space.com/spacex-starhopper-rocket-untethered-hop-abort.html]failed to lift off[/URL]. Instead of hopping up about 65 feet (20 meters) as planned, the rocket belched flame and smoke, then shut down. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]"It appears as though we have had an abort on today's test," SpaceX certification engineer Kate Tice said during a webcast of the Starhopper test. "As you can see there, the vehicle did not lift off today." [Wednesday's] test flight was designed to be the first untethered flight for Starhopper, with its Raptor engine firing at 80% capacity, Tice said. "This is a development program," she added. "Today was a test flight designed to test the boundaries of the vehicle."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Elon Musk later tweeted that the shutdown was due to the Raptor engine's chamber pressure being high due to "colder than expected propellant." <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XqUSRBJPYUE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>
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