The space company SpaceX, belonging to the millionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has designed the Starship launch system to be fully reusable and hopes to use it for deep space exploration towards the Moon and Mars
For Flight 4, SpaceX intends to fly its Starship rocket and its Super Heavy booster on a trajectory similar to that of its Flight 3 test, a mission that would launch the Starship vehicle to orbital speed and then re-enter the ship over the Indian Ocean.
Elon Musk announced that the broadcast of the Starship rocket launch will be via streaming
The launch of Starshipscheduled for the early hours of this Thursday, is a significant step in the future plans of SpaceX. As reported Musk“the goal is to develop a completely reusable rocket that could revolutionize space travel.”
The live broadcast of the launch through the X platform offers viewers the opportunity to witness every critical moment of the takeoff and its subsequent journey.
Elon Musk’s Starship megarocket begins a new orbital flight test
Today the fourth experimental ship will be launched that will seek to reach space and then land in the ocean. NASA is carefully analyzing the performance of this rocket that would allow it to take astronauts to the Moon and Mars
“The spaceship is ready to fly,” the CEO of SpaceX, the millionaire entrepreneur, wrote on his social network Elon Musk.
SpaceX has everything ready for the fourth test flight of its Starship rocket
The most powerful rocket built to date will take off again from the base in Boca Chica, in southern Texas (USA).
The firm obtained on Tuesday, from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, in English), the authorization license to be able to launch the Starshipwhich includes the ship of the same name and the booster rocket Super Heavy and together it is 122 meters high.
Takeoff is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. local time (12:00 GMT), which will be a two-hour launch window.
It will mean for the company Elon Musk the fourth test flight after the one carried out last March, when the ship managed to reach the limits of the Earth’s atmosphere, but was unable to successfully complete its descent from a height of 160 kilometers and at a speed of 26,000 km/h.
