Meanwhile, SpaceX is constructing prototypes in Boca Chica, Texas, of its heavy-lift Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a stratospheric valuation in its latest funding|Verne Kopytoff|August 18, 2020|Fortune
A smaller prototype called Starhopper was flown as high as 490 feet last year.
SpaceX flew a prototype of its Starship vehicle for the first time|Neel Patel|August 5, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Some such tests exist now, in prototype form, awaiting Food and Drug Administration approval and funding for mass distribution.
The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone - Facts So Romantic|Robert Bazell|August 5, 2020|Nautilus
Their prototype base, printed last October in Copenhagen, is 10 meters tall and was printed layer by layer, its two walls joined together by a sinuous line of concrete layered into the middle.
GE Will 3D Print the Bases of Wind Turbines Taller Than Seattle’s Space Needle|Jason Dorrier|June 21, 2020|Singularity Hub
Most current bioprinted tissue prototypes are done inside the lab, where scientists can maintain more intricate control of how the tissue grows.
Scientists 3D Printed Ears Inside Living Mice Using Light|Shelly Fan|June 9, 2020|Singularity Hub
The FC-31 prototype was hidden except when it was flying, and not much detail was available.
How China Will Track—and Kill—America’s Newest Stealth Jets|Bill Sweetman|December 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The prototype Land Rover was designed by a Jeep owner and built on a Jeep chassis.
Nationalism on Four Wheels|Clive Irving|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Was I looking at the real me or just a reflection in the funhouse mirror of my prototype iPhone 6?
Aubrey Plaza’s Great Disconnect|Aubrey Plaza|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt was produced in five different colors during its prototype tour, and the cars were later sold.
Dreaming Up the Cars of the Future|Justin Jones|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 2009, the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) awarded Solar Roadways a contract to construct a prototype.
Pave the Roads With Solar Panels?|The Daily Beast|June 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The words and sentences which are supplied are very carefully chosen, and most of them have a prototype somewhere in the poem.
The Translations of Beowulf|Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Colonel Yule suspects that its prototype may have been the semi-Christian kingdom of Abyssinia.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2)|John Fiske.
The frogs in this phyletic line retained the moderate size of the prototype and did not develop additional dermal bone.
Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca|William E. Duellman
She was deified and took the place of a goddess, apparently Nina, the prototype of Derceto.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie
The clavichord retained the box shape of its prototype, the monochord.
How to Appreciate Music|Gustav Kobb
British Dictionary definitions for prototype
prototype
/ (ˈprəʊtəˌtaɪp) /
noun
one of the first units manufactured of a product, which is tested so that the design can be changed if necessary before the product is manufactured commercially
a person or thing that serves as an example of a type
biologythe ancestral or primitive form of a species or other group; an archetype