SpaceX giant 400ft Starship rocket will fly 47,000 feet into the air later this week according to Elon Musk, but there is a one in three chance it will land with a crash. No specific date or time has been set for the test flight, which follows a series of 'static fire tests', but it is expected to be before the end of this week. If this latest flight test - that will see the triple Raptor engine fire and lift the 400ft spaceship into the air - is successful, then further, higher tests will likely follow. The latest high-altitude test is penciled in for some point between Wednesday and the end of the week, but test times and dates can change at short notice. The latest prototype of Starship, dubbed SN8, needs to complete a static fire test at the SpaceX Boca Chica development facility in Texas before the altitude test flight.

Source: Daily Mail December 02, 2020 15:05 UTC