SpaceX Starship Prototype Passes Static Fire

Irene Klotz May 06, 2020
The business end of SpaceX's Starship prototype, with a single Raptor engine.
Credit: SpaceX
A week after winning a $135 million NASA contract to support work on its fully reusable, deep-space transportation system, SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of a full-size, second-stage Starship prototype. The firing of the test vehicle’s single methane-fueled Raptor engine took place...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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