Last Update: February 06, 2023, 20:13 IST
SpaceX is planning a test flight in March
An attempt will be made to test the position, flight range and flight performance.
Elon Musk has said that SpaceX may attempt to complete the long-awaited orbital test flight of Starship as early as next month.
Responding to a question on Saturday from one of his Twitter followers, who asked, “You back in Texas? Starship almost ready?”, Musk said the private space firm is targeting a March launch attempt.
“If the rest of the tests go well, we will try to launch Starship next month,” he tweeted.
In January, SpaceX completed its first, full flight-like dress rehearsal for its deep-space rocket Starship, which is capable of carrying astronauts to Mars.
The space company conducted a “wet dress rehearsal” with the 395-foot-long (120 m) Starship at its Starbase facility in South Texas.
“Starship completed its first full flight-like wet dress rehearsal at Starbase. This was the first time an integrated ship and booster were fully loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant,” SpaceX said in a tweet .
Meanwhile, NASA and SpaceX have set a February 26 launch date for the Crew-6 mission, which will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay.
According to a NASA blogpost, Crew-6 will send the SpaceX Dragon capsule Endeavor atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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