In his hour-long speech broadcast live on YouTube, the founder of SpaceX hammered home his ambitious vision: "In order for life to become multi-planetary, we'll need maybe 1,000 ships." World Agence France-Presse Updated: November 18. "What we're aiming to develop with starship is a generalized means of transporting large amounts of mass or people. 'We'll do a bunch of tests in December and hopefully launch in January,' Elon Musk said in a talk for the National Academies Space Studies Board. Well have 39 flightworthy engines built by next month, then another month to integrate, so hopefully May for orbital flight test, Musk tweeted in. US space agency NASA is betting on Starship to become the lander used as part of its Artemis program to take humans back to the Moon, in 2025 at the earliest.īut the SpaceX chief has even bigger dreams for this "biggest rocket ever designed." SpaceX Starship 's first orbital test flight is expected to launch sometime in late 2022, once SpaceX makes environmental adjustments to Starbase, the planned launch site, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration. CEO Elon Musk says the space company will conduct the test flight of the. He said Starship would be operational to transport loads outside the framework of tests "in 2023." We finally have a date for SpaceX's long-awaited, first orbital test launch of its Starship spacecraft well, sort of.
WILL HOPEFULLY LAUNCH FIRST ORBITAL FLIGHT SERIES
The billionaire entrepreneur - who also founded electric carmaker Tesla - said he hoped to have completed the launch pad and launch tower this month, before carrying out a series of checks.Īfter the proposed January test launch, he aims for a dozen additional launches or more through the end of 2022. For the upcoming orbital test, it will be decked out with an ultra-powerful first stage dubbed Super Heavy.Īuthorization from the US Federal Aviation Administration is expected "around the end of the year," Musk said.
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