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SpaceX test-fired one of the engines it will need to—eventually, some day, fingers crossed—send passengers to space aboard its aptly named Starship space ship. 近期，SpaceX测试了它们日后会用到的一个引擎。终有一天——让我们双手祈祷，乘客们会乘坐名为Starship的太空船上的太空。 The test fire of the so-called Starhopper engine took place on Wednesday at its Boca Chica, Texas, test facility. The test was a tethered hop that let the engine do a “static fire” while connected to the ground so engineering teams could monitor it. 周三，相关人士在德克萨斯州Boca Chica的测试设施进行了所谓的Starhopper发动机的测试。测试可以看作是一次“系绳跳”，让发动机在连接到地面时进行“静态点火”，以便工程团队可以对其进行监控。 Musk later tweeted “all systems green” which we’re guessing means that the test was successful. 马斯克后来发了推文“所有系统都蓄势待发”，外界猜测这意味着测试成功了。 Starhopper is one of the engines that will hopefully help propel SpaceX’s new 100-person spacecraft, called Starship to the Moon and beyond. The Starhopper is powered by Raptor engines, which run on liquid methane and liquid oxygen, and will fly no higher than 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) in the air, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission. | 
