SpaceX continues to march ahead with the Starhopper. They are recovering from the wind damaged nose cone for the Starhopper and they placed fuel tanks into the bottom half of the Starhopper.
Elon Musk tweeted out a video clip of the testing of the metallic heat shield up to 1100 celsius.
[Removed – Starhopper photos were from the user Bocachicagal at the NASA Space Forum.]
Testing metallic heat shield at 1100C (2000F) @SpaceX pic.twitter.com/frP5eZ5a0z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2019
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