{"id":59625,"date":"2020-05-29T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/faa-approves-spacex-starship-flight-tests-prototype-explodes\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:59:36","slug":"faa-approves-spacex-starship-flight-tests-prototype-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/faa-approves-spacex-starship-flight-tests-prototype-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Approves SpaceX Starship Flight Tests, Prototype Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>SpaceX<\/b> has received approval from the <b>Federal Aviation Administration<\/b> (FAA) for suborbital flight tests of its Starship rocket prototype from the test site in Boca Chica, Texas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The approval, issued and effective May 28, is good for two years. It comes with the requirement to identify and report any anomaly to the FAA occurring on a prior flight of the vehicle or during any pre-flight processing of the vehicle that could be material to public safety. <\/p>\n<p>The approval came a day before the SN4 Starship prototype exploded on Friday during a static fire test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX said its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket, which are collectively referred to as Starship, represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars. SpaceX plans for Starship to be the world\u2019s most powerful launch vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in March at SATELLITE 2020, SpaceX Founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk said the reusability aspect of Starship is key: \u201cWe need a whole new architecture, and that is what Starship is about. It needs to be completely re-usable. It needs to be re-launched an hour after landing. It is like commercial aircraft. The only thing you expect to change on a regular basis is propellant. It has got to be fast. We are building a production line.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for suborbital flight tests of its Starship rocket prototype from the test site in Boca Chica, Texas.&nbsp; The approval, issued and effective May 28, is good for two years. It comes with the requirement to identify and report any anomaly to the FAA occurring on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}