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“What we’re aiming to develop with starship is a generalized means of transporting large amounts of mass or people… anywhere in the solar system,” he said. 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.” He said Starship would be operational to transport loads outside the framework of tests “in 2023.”
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. READ ALSO: Eto’o Submits Candidacy For Cameroon FA Presidencyįor 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. After multiple tests that ended in impressive explosions, SpaceX finally succeeded in landing the spacecraft, which is designed to be reusable.
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Starship has already made several sub-orbital flights. “So I would not say that it is likely to be successful, but I think we will make a lot of progress.” “There’s a lot of risk associated with this first launch,” he said. “We’ll do a bunch of tests in December and hopefully launch in January,” Musk said in a talk for the National Academies Space Studies Board. Elon Musk said Wednesday that the Starship developed by his company SpaceX and selected by NASA for the Americans’ return to the Moon would attempt its first orbital flight early next year.