American entrepreneur Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, said on a social network: x (formerly Twitter) announced that the Starship spacecraft is ready to be launched into space.
According to the businessman, Starship is awaiting flight license approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration.
at the end of June reportedHe said a new sample of the Starship rocket passed ground-firing tests.
To test the rocket’s main systems, SpaceX filled the rocket with fuel and oxidizing agent and then started the engines for a few seconds. As planned in the test, the thrust forces were not enough to lift the rocket off the ground. The test was conducted at the SpaceX spaceport near the city of Boca Chica, Texas.
This Starship S25 is the successor to the S24 rocket, which exploded during an orbital test flight on April 20. The S25 could be ready to fly “in about six weeks,” as Elon Musk said on June 24.
Starship is a next-generation, super-heavy, fully reusable rocket with both stages landing on its tail. Starship will also have to get astronauts to the moon as part of the NASA Artemis program in the second half of the 2020s.
Former American journalist declarationThat Elon Musk periodically goes into “devil mode”.