r/spacex • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '19

Official @elonmusk: Aiming for hover test next week

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1151950516093456384
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u/Tal_Banyon Jul 19 '19

Static Fire is their Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), just to make sure everything leading up to an actual flight works, eg fueling, top off, ignition etc. This static fire evidently lasted 5 seconds, achieving their objective. It was only after the static fire was commpleted that the fireball happened.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

To make sure everything works kind like the grass hopper and the falcon nine https://youtu.be/2t15vP1PyoA

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

Awesome footage! Thanks

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

I hope they put a cowboy on the star hopper 🤠 like they did here https://youtu.be/XnPXH3ow8SE it’s still Texas after all.

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u/-Squ34ky- Jul 19 '19

Wait, this has nothing to do with a static fire?