SpaceX boss Elon Musk is about to offer an update on the company’s progress with its next-generation Starship rocket in the first such event since 2019.
SpaceX boss Elon Musk is about to offer an update on the company’s progress with its next-generation Starship rocket.Responding to a question from one of his 72 million Twitter followers about the date of the next Starship presentation, Musk revealed it will take place on the evening of Thursday, February 10. SpaceX’s next-generation flight system comprises the Super Heavy first stage and the Starship upper stage, collectively known as Starship.
SpaceX had been hoping to perform the test flight before now, but the Federal Aviation Administration is still working to complete an environmental review that should clear the way for the launch at SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility in Texas. Reusing the entire vehicle means landing not only the first stage as it currently does with its successful though less powerful Falcon 9 rocket, but also the Starship spacecraft, which SpaceX wants to be able to set down on other planets, as well as back on Earth, a feat it’s managed to achieve once so far in a high-altitude test flight last year.
The SpaceX boss said at the time, “This is going to sound totally nuts, but I think we want to try to reach orbit in six months.” That never happened, but the idea of Super Heavy and Starship reaching orbit this year is definitely realistic. Hopefully, Musk now has some concrete plans for the Starship project that he can share at the presentation.
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