---
title: "SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend"
description: "After its first successful flight test of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday."
date: "2020-08-28"
modified: "2020-08-28"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/space-planning-fly-starship-prototype"
categories:
  - "Space"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "Starship"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "Starship"
  - "the digest"
---

# SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend

![After its first successful flight test of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/space-planning-fly-starship-prototype.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: SpaceX via Flickr\</em\>*

## Hop on Pop

After its [first successful flight test](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacexs-starhopper-aces-test-flight-500-feet>) of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday.

According to CEO Elon Musk, this will be another l0w altitude test, intended to work out the bugs before moving on to more ambitious launches.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1290826885375696899

## Rocket Man

It'll be a test of SpaceX's SN6 Starship prototype, a squat metallic tank that the company hopes to eventually refine into a scifi-esque vehicle intended to move cargo or humans to the Moon, Mars or beyond.

The launch is currently slated for sometime after 9am EST, from SpaceX's facility in Bocha Chica, Texas.

"Good chance something will slip, but, yeah, Sunday is intense," Musk [tweeted](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1299397894135373824>) about the busy day of SpaceX launches.

**READ MORE:** [SpaceX hopes to 'hop' another Starship prototype this weekend](<https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-hopes-to-hop-another-starship-prototype-this-weekend/>) \[*CNET*\]

**More on SpaceX:** [*Astronomers Slam SpaceX’s Growing Starlink Satellite Constellation*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/astronomers-slam-spacex-growing-starlink-satellite-constellation>)

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)