SpaceX plans to launch its Starship mega-rocket on another uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Tuesday, this time with President-elect Donald Trump on hand to watch.
SpaceX plans to launch its Starship mega-rocket on another uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Tuesday, this time with President-elect Donald Trump expected on hand to watch.The flight, just five weeks after the last one, shows SpaceX is gaining confidence in the rocket and its systems and is moving closer to making the world’s most powerful rocket operational and, ultimately, reusable. The 30-minute launch window opens at 4 p.m. Central Time.
’s Saturn moon rockets of the 1960s. Fully stacked, the Starship combination reaches 397 feet high.The rocket is being developed to reduce the cost and complexity of launches. plans to use Starship as its lunar lander during the upcoming Artemis missions later this decade, carrying astronauts down to the moon and then back up to the Orion capsule.SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has long made clear his goal of using Starship to take people to Mars, making humanity a "multiplanetary species."After engine fires and explosions plagued the first test flights, last month’s Starship flight – the fifth – was the most successful one yet.
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