Elon Musk announced the fourth launch of the SpaceX ship

SpaceX -the aerospace company Elon Musk– launch your rocket Starship on the morning of this Thursday June 6.

Last Tuesday the 4th, the company received the license that authorized the takeoff of the fourth test flight of Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket never known.

In a statement, SpaceX detailed that the fourth flight of the ship will depart from the spaceport starbase -the company’s private base, in Boca Chica, southern Texas, United States-, the same place from where the previous flights were launched.

The takeoff, they clarified, will have a test window of 120 minutes that will begin at 07:00 CT (09:00 in Argentina) and approximately half an hour before the company will begin the live broadcast on its website and social networks.

The Federal Aviation Administration gave SpaceX approval for Thursday’s flight test and maintained that the company “met all requirements.” security requirements and other licensing requirements for this test flight.”

In this sense, it is important to highlight that each of the test flights of Starship has different objectives which are based on lessons learned and milestones achieved during previous flights.

According to the company, the previous flight test of the Starship rocket took huge steps toward a future of reusable rockets quickly reliable.

On that flight, the launcher managed reach orbitalthough exploded during re-entry into the atmosphere.

“The fourth test flight shifts our focus from reaching orbit to demonstrating the ability to return and reuse Starship and Super Heavy. The main objectives will be to execute a soft landing and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico with the Super Heavy booster and achieve a controlled entry of Starship,” Musk’s company reported.

Thus, in this new experience SpaceX will test new limits of its enormous shuttle and reusable lunar lander that the POT intends to use it in the coming years on the Artemis missions to the Moon.

The first launch was carried out on April 20, 2023, but the rocket exploded minutes after takeoff. The second, which took place in November last year, achieved separation with the Super Heavy propellant before exploding.

The third trip, in March 2024, as we said, showed great progress since it managed to enter orbit although it later exploded.

SpaceX is a private aerospace technology company that was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk.

At that time, the magnate highlighted that the company’s objective was to revolutionize the way space is accessed and make possible Mars colonization.

SpaceX has developed and successfully launched several space vehicles, including the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft, which have been used to deliver supplies to the International Space Station On behalf of the POT.

A pioneer in the aerospace industry, Musk’s company is known for its innovative approach to the design and manufacturing of reusable rocketswhich has made it possible to significantly reduce the costs of space launches.

In addition, it has achieved important milestones in the industry, such as first vertical landing of an orbital rocket and the first launch of a reused rocket.

As we explained, SpaceX’s ultimate goal is to colonize Mars and become a kind of “interplanetary transportation company”.

In this sense, in 2016 Musk presented his plan to send a manned mission to Mars in 2024 and establish a colony on the red planet in the following decades.

But in addition to its work in the field of space exploration, SpaceX has also developed projects such as starlinka constellation of satellites that will provide high-speed internet around the world, and the rocket BFR (Big Falcon Rocket), which is expected to be used for missions to Mars and other deep space destinations.