SpaceX Starhopper Hover Test Aiming for Tuesday

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
Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

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