The company is gearing up for the sixth test flight of the megarocket, with plans to significantly step up Starship's launch cadence next year.
SpaceX has big plans for its Starship rocket. After a groundbreaking test flight, in which the landing tower caught the booster, the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk wants to see the megarocket fly up to 25 times next year, working its way up to a launch rate of 100 flights per year, and eventually a Starship launching on a daily basis.
By comparison, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has already launched 100 times this year, but it’s a tried-and-true rocket that’s been around since 2010. Starship is still under development and undergoing steady modifications, so the goal of 25 launches in 2025 is very ambitious. That amounts to nearly one launch every two weeks. That’s a big ask.
SpaceX has previously complained that the FAA is holding Starship back. “Starships need to fly. The more we fly safely, the faster we learn; the faster we learn, the sooner we realize full and rapid rocket reuse,” the companyin a blog post earlier this year. “Unfortunately, we continue to be stuck in a reality where it takes longer to do the government paperwork to license a rocket launch than it does to design and build the actual hardware.”on Sunday, October 13, at 8:25 a.m.
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