SpaceX is building another Starship in Florida- Elon Musk revealed |
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SpaceX is building another Starship in Florida- Elon Musk revealed
SpaceX’s Starhopper moves closer to its first flight. SPACEX is stepping-up construction of its next-generation Starship hopper space rockets, with a new, rival site competing against the first, Elon Musk has announced. SPACEX SpaceX has already transformed space travel with its reusable rocket technology. Its Falcon 9 rockets and Crew Dragon area already being used by space agency’s around the world to ferry cargo and satellites into orbit. ELONMUSK/TWITTER And Elon Musk-owned company has even more spectacular ambitions: its reusable Starship, designed to take crew to the moon, Mars and beyond. And SpaceX believes a little friendly competition will improve performance of its next-generation Starship. BOCACHICAGIRL/TWITTER The company has already built a scaled-down prototype of that 100-passenger "Starship" craft at its South Texas facility. ELONMUSK/TWITTER Now, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed recently that SpaceX has been working on the Starship in two locations. Musk confirmed that, alongside the well-publicized work in Texas, a second team in Florida has been working on their own version in a bid to accelerate humanity’s journey to colonize Mars. “SpaceX is doing simultaneous competing builds of Starship in Boca Chica Texas & Cape Canaveral Florida,” Musk tweeted in response to a photo posted of a Starship prototype under construction at a Cocoa, Fla., industrial park. In this video, Engineering Today will discussSpaceX’s Second Starship– What We Know So Far? Why SpaceX Is Building a 'Starship' Rocket Prototype in Florida, Too? What It Means for Elon Musk’s Mars Ambitions? Let’s get into details. #EngineeringToday #SpaceX #SpaceXStarship AUDIO: Voiceover by Scott Leffler -- scottleffler.com Big thanks for local photos to AUDIO: Voiceover by Scott Leffler -- scottleffler.com Inspired by https://www.express.co.uk https://www.inverse.com https://www.floridatoday.com https://www.nasaspaceflight.com Special Thanks to NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal for Local Starship photos |