SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that the Starship’s orbital test flight could take place in April, but that date depends on regulatory approval.
A SpaceX can carry out the first orbital flight test of the spaceship vehicle between the middle and the end of April. That’s what I said Elon MuskCEO and founder of the company, in a post on Twitter this Thursday (16), in response to a user who said that the test flight was close.
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According to him, the company will be ready to launch in a few weeks, but the date of the mission depends on the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency regulating flights in the United States. “Assuming it takes a few weeks, the first attempt will be towards the end of the third week of April, that is…” he wrote.
SpaceX will be ready to launch Starship in a few weeks, so launch times will depend on FAA license approval.
Assuming they take a few weeks, the first launch attempt will happen towards the end of the third week of April, i.e.…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2023
The starship is a system consisting of the super-heavy drive and the starship’s upper stage, the ship itself. according to document issued by the company in 2021, the rover will launch unmanned from Boca Chica in south Texas and circle the Earth; then she will return to land in the Pacific Ocean.
In an interview conducted earlier this month, Musk has stated that there is about a 50% chance that the test flight is successful; however, he also pointed out that the company is assembling several vehicles at the Starbase facilities and that some of them should perform well. “I think we have about an 80% chance of reaching orbit this year.
Both the ship and its booster have been designed to be fully and quickly reusable, but it may take some time for these aspects to become reality. “It will probably take a few years to get to full and rapid reusability,” she noted in the interview.
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