Last updated: February 06, 2023, 8:13 PM IST
SpaceX plans the test flight in March
The attempt is made to test condition, flight range and execution of the flight.
Elon Musk has stated that SpaceX may attempt to complete Starship’s highly anticipated orbital test flight as early as next month.
In response to a question from one of his Twitter followers on Saturday, who asked, “Are you back in Texas? Starship almost ready?” Musk said the private space company is aiming for a launch attempt in March.
“If the remaining tests go well, we will attempt a Starship launch next month,” he tweeted.
In January, SpaceX completed its first-ever full flight-like dress rehearsal for its Starship space rocket, which is likely capable of delivering astronauts to Mars.
The aerospace company performed a “wet dress rehearsal” with the 395-foot-tall (120 meters) Starship at its South Texas Starbase facility.
“Starship completed its first full flight-like wet dress rehearsal on Starbase. This was the first time an integrated ship and booster had been fully loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant,” SpaceX said in a tweet.
Meanwhile, NASA and SpaceX have set Feb. 26 as the launch date for the Crew-6 mission, which will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay.
Crew-6 will launch the SpaceX Dragon capsule Endeavor atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, according to a NASA blog post.
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