LIVE: SpaceX launches fourth test flight of its powerful Starship rocket
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Space company SpaceX, owned by millionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk developed a Starship launch system that is completely reusable and hopes to use it for deep space exploration on the Moon and Mars.
For Flight 4, SpaceX intends to launch its Starship rocket and super-heavy launch vehicle. along a trajectory similar to the flight test trajectory 3, a mission that would take Starship to orbital speed and then re-enter the ship over the Indian Ocean.
Elon Musk announced that the Starship rocket launch will be streamed
Launch Starshipscheduled for the early hours of this Thursday is a significant step in future plans SpaceX. Reportedly Musk“The goal is to develop a fully reusable rocket that could revolutionize space travel.”
Live streaming of the launch via Platform X gives viewers the opportunity to witness every critical moment of the takeoff and its subsequent journey.
Megarocket Starship Elon Musk began new tests in orbit
A fourth experimental spacecraft will be launched today, aiming to reach space and then land in the ocean. NASA is carefully analyzing the characteristics of this rocket, which will allow it to carry astronauts to the Moon and Mars.
“The spaceship is ready to fly” SpaceX CEO, millionaire entrepreneur, wrote on his social network Elon Musk.
SpaceX has prepared everything for the fourth test flight of its Starship rocket
The most powerful rocket built to date will once again take off from a base in Boca Chica, in southern Texas (USA).
The company received on Tuesday from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, in English), launch license Starshipwhich includes the ship of the same name and a launch vehicle Super Heavy and together it is 122 meters in height.
Takeoff is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. local time (12:00 GMT), creating a two-hour launch window.
This will mean for the company Elon Musk The fourth test flight since the one that took place in March last year, when the ship managed to reach the limits of the earth’s atmosphere, but failed to successfully complete its descent from an altitude of 160 kilometers and at a speed of 26,000 km/h.