Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing firm SpaceX on Friday postponed the sixth flight take a look at of its Starship launch car to November 19.
What Occurred: Earlier this month, SpaceX pegged the sixth textual content flight of Starship for Nov. 18. Nonetheless, the corporate postponed it by a day to Tuesday on Friday and stated the 30-minute launch window would open at 4:00 pm CT.
For the subsequent take a look at flight, the corporate goals to catch Starship’s booster again on the launch website as on the final flight and splash down the higher stage within the Indian Ocean.
Previous Flights: On Starship’s fifth flight take a look at in October, it lifted off from Starbase, and the booster returned to Earth after propelling Starship to house. The booster was subsequently caught by the launch tower at Starbase.
The Starship, in the meantime, went on to house and splashed down on course within the Indian Ocean.
The restoration of the booster was a key goal of the flight take a look at and demonstrated the reusability of the Starship’s design. SpaceX is aiming to make the Starship a very reusable spacecraft that may fly a number of occasions, thereby lowering the price of spaceflight.
Why It Issues: Starship is vital to NASA’s goals of taking people again to the floor of the Moon.
NASA’s Artemis 3 mission slated to launch no sooner than September 2026 is predicted to allow people to land again on the floor of the moon with the assistance of the Starship human touchdown system. The final time people set foot on the Moon was in 1972 with Apollo 17. Since then, no crew has traveled past low-Earth orbit.
Musk, in the meantime, is eyeing taking people to Earth’s neighboring planet Mars aboard the Starship. In September, he stated that the primary Starship launch to Mars is predicted in 2026 and that it’ll not have a crew on board.
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