The Starship rocket could be launched into space in March. In this respect reported Elon Musk on Twitter.
Starship is a next-generation, super-heavy, fully reusable rocket with both stages landing on its tail. Its main feature should be the ability to launch 100 tons of cargo into orbit on a ship integrated with the upper tier and refuel this ship using modified upper tier fuel tankers. It is Starship that will have to get astronauts to the moon under the NASA Artemis program in the second half of the 2020s.
At this time, the rocket went through a series of low-altitude test flights (“bounces”), followed by a landing. Now the head of SpaceX has said orbital tests could be done in March. “If the remaining tests go well, we will try to launch Starship next month,” he wrote on Twitter. He later added: “Success is not certain, but pleasure is guaranteed.”
If successful, the first stage will land in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship 24 will make a complete revolution around the Earth and land in the Pacific Ocean. Attempting to land a rocket on a hard surface will not result in a high risk of failure, and a collision with water is not so dangerous even if the vertical velocity of descent is significantly exceeded.
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Source: Gazeta
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