Watch SpaceX's Starship Prototype Make 1st Successful Test Flight

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The SN5 prototype for SpaceX's Mars-colonising Starship has made its first successful uncrewed test flight.

The brief flight took place at 6:57 p.m. local time (23:57 GMT) on Tuesday. The test vehicle made a short 150 meter (492 feet) hop from the Space X’s site near the South Texas village of Boca Chica.

​It comes after previous prototypes, except for the first one (Starhopper), failed during testing. In November 2019, the Starship Mk1 prototype was damaged during a cryogenic pressure test. In February 2020, the Starship SN1 prototype exploded during a liquid nitrogen pressure test.

In April, the Starship SN3 prototype was destroyed during a pressure test. Back then, Musk said that it might have been a test configuration mistake. In another test a month later, the SN4 went up in flames due to what appears to have been a gas leak.

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