https://wccftech.com/spacex-will-build-radar-wind-models-for-nasa-mars-rocket-tests/ > SpaceX's Starship SN8 prototype minutes before launch in December 2020, loading super chilled liquid Oxygen, with frost visible on the vehicle. This was the first vehicle that has been slated to be tested for a 12.5 kilometer flight, with three Raptor engines, a nosecone and forward flaps. Image: SpaceX > Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) plans to generate radar-based wind models for its test facility in Boca Chica, Texas. This reveal comes courtesy of a filing SpaceX made with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Office of Experimental Technologies (OET) last week. The filing outlines the company's plans to "Generate historical wind models at the Boca Chica Range," using a third-party manufacturer's tropospheric radar wind profiler. SpaceX is testing its next-generation launch vehicle (rocket) platform dubbed Starship in Texas. Through Starship, the company hopes to take NASA astronauts to the Moon and conduct interplanetary missions to Mars.