Starhopper test
A still from a short video posted by Elon Musk April 6 showing the "Starhopper" prototype of Starship about to fire its engine for a brief, tethered test.

SpaceX has started initial tethered tests of the first prototype of its next generation Starship launch vehicle at its South Texas test site.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...