SpaceX最新飞船被大风吹翻，修复需数周

SpaceX的新型星际飞船Starship本计划有朝一日将人类带上火星，但公司的首席执行官埃隆·马斯克的一条推文显示，停放在得克萨斯州博卡奇卡私用发射场的飞船原型却被强风吹翻，需要几周时间接受修复。

周三在网上发布的图片显示，不锈钢的机体倾斜倒在地面上。马斯克称，周二深夜时速达到50英里的阵风破坏了火箭的系泊模块，导致火箭的上半部分被吹翻。他说这款原型需要“几周”时间来修复，之后SpaceX才能按照计划继续发射测试。

这款Starship Hopper原型看起来与SpaceX计划用于实际发射的产品有些区别。马斯克称，Hopper原型与未来的Starship一样，直径30英尺，不过长度更短一些。

我刚听说。昨晚时速50英里的强风破坏了系泊模块，整流罩被吹翻。需要几周时间来修复。

——埃隆·马斯克（@elonmusk）2019年1月23日

Starship原来被称作BFR。这款太空飞船由超重型火箭推进器和太空舱Starship构成。SpaceX希望有朝一日它能向宇宙运载货物和太空旅行者，包括去年宣布成为SpaceX首位付费登月用户的日本亿万富翁前泽友作。前泽友作表示他打算邀请一群艺术家同行，他们最早将于2023年出发。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

SpaceX’s new Starship hopper, a prototype of the spacecraft that could one day take people to Mars, will need weeks of repairs after it was toppled by strong winds at the company’s private launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, according to a tweet by CEO Elon Musk.

Images posted online Wednesday show the stainless steel vehicle tipped over and laying sideways on the ground. Musk said 50 mph wind gusts broke the rocket’s mooring blocks late Tuesday night, prompting the its top part to tip sideways. Musk said the prototype will need “weeks” of repairs before SpaceX can proceed with planned test launches.

The Starship Hopper prototype looks slightly different than the one SpaceX plans to use on actual missions. The Hopper prototype has the same 30-foot diameter as the future Starship, but is shorter, according to Musk.

I just heard. 50 mph winds broke the mooring blocks late last night & fairing was blown over. Will take a few weeks to repair.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 23, 2019

Starship used to be known as the BFR. The spacecraft consists of a Super Heavy rocket booster and a spacecraft, the Starship, which SpaceX hopes will one day carry cargo and space tourists — including Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who was announced last year as SpaceX’s first paying lunar passenger—to the cosmos. Maezawa said he plans to invite a group of artists on that mission, which could happen as early as 2023.