SpaceX的新型星際飛船Starship本計劃有朝一日將人類帶上火星，但公司的首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克的一條推文顯示，停放在得克薩斯州博卡奇卡私用發射場的飛船原型卻被強風吹翻，需要幾周時間接受修復。

周三在網上發布的圖片顯示，不銹鋼的機體傾斜倒在地面上。馬斯克稱，周二深夜時速達到50英里的陣風破壞了火箭的系泊模塊，導致火箭的上半部分被吹翻。他說這款原型需要“幾周”時間來修復，之后SpaceX才能按照計劃繼續發射測試。

這款Starship Hopper原型看起來與SpaceX計劃用于實際發射的產品有些區別。馬斯克稱，Hopper原型與未來的Starship一樣，直徑30英尺，不過長度更短一些。

我剛聽說。昨晚時速50英里的強風破壞了系泊模塊，整流罩被吹翻。需要幾周時間來修復。

——埃隆·馬斯克（@elonmusk）2019年1月23日

Starship原來被稱作BFR。這款太空飛船由超重型火箭推進器和太空艙Starship構成。SpaceX希望有朝一日它能向宇宙運載貨物和太空旅行者，包括去年宣布成為SpaceX首位付費登月用戶的日本億萬富翁前澤友作。前澤友作表示他打算邀請一群藝術家同行，他們最早將于2023年出發。（財富中文網）

譯者：嚴匡正

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.