Elon Musk indicates the Raptor engine is on the Starhopper and they are aiming for a hover test on Tuesday.
Raptor engine mounted on Starhopper. Aiming for hover test Tues.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2019
SN6 Raptor is being installed on to Starhopper at Boca Chica.
Mary (@BocaChicaGal) with some cool pics
https://t.co/tKL2XTB52i pic.twitter.com/z2ruDsAxi0 — Chris B – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) July 11, 2019
#SpaceX crews were hard at work today, with the re-integration of the Raptor engine with #StarHopper! As well as making leaps and bounds in shining #StarShip(in person, it’s blinding
) One of the tracking dishes, was pointed at the launch pad. pic.twitter.com/i3vTrLoten — Austin Barnard
(@austinbarnard45) July 11, 2019
There is rapid progress on the orbital version of the Starship as well.
SOURCES- Elon Musk Twitter, chris B NSF (@NASASpaceflight) Twitter, Austin Bernard Twitter
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