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The company, headed by Elon Musk, planned to send the 400-foot rocket on an attempted trip around the globe from the southern tip of Texas to eventually crash in the Pacific ocean near Hawaii. Despite the rocket’s explosion, the launch pad did survive.
After the launch, Musk said on Twitter that the company “learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.” It was the company’s second launch attempt after canceling one on Monday due to a frozen booster valve.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson congratulated the Starship’s team in a tweet, saying “Every great achievement throughout history has demanded some level of calculated risk, because with great risk comes great reward. Looking forward to all that SpaceX learns, to the next flight test—and beyond.”
When asked if it’s time for lawmakers to push for more commercial spaceflight regulation, House Aviation Subcommittee Chair Garret Graves (R-La.) said he doesn’t want to do “anything that impedes the progress of innovation for commercial space.”
“But obviously, you got that balance with safety. And so we’re gonna continue working with NTSB,” Graves said.
SpaceX’s Starship is designed to be a fully reusable space vehicle that can carry both crew and cargo “to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond,” the company claims, aiming at expanding the private space industry and space tourism.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Commerce Aviation Subcommittee, said lawmakers need to clarify which agency will be in charge of regulating the industry as the “space tourism steps up.”
“We have to decide who’s going to regulate that type of travel. Is it going to be the FAA or is it going to be NASA — NASA is not a regulating agency the way FAA is — coming up with the rules and policies of how we conduct both commercial passenger and commercial freight travel?” Duckworth said. “… We need to sit down and really have a real reckoning as to who’s going to be in charge of this — an agency that has lots of experience with regulating commercial passenger and freight but no space experience, or a space agency that has no experience with with logistical moving things around the way the FAA does? So we’ll have to see.”
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San Francisco: SpaceX’s Starship is ready for its first orbital test flight on Thursday, CEO Elon Musk said.
This will be the second launch attempt, as the first on Monday was scrubbed at the last minute due to an issue with the pressurisation system on Starship’s first stage, a huge booster called Super Heavy.
“All systems currently green for launch,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
Earlier on Tuesday, he tweeted that the company is working on many issues to prepare for the launch.
“The team is working around the clock on many issues. Maybe 4/20, maybe not,” Musk said.
Meanwhile, the company updated on its website: “SpaceX is targeting as soon as Thursday, April 20 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas.”
“The 62 minute launch window opens at 8:28 a.m. CT (6:58a-pm IST) and closes at 9:30 a.m. CT (8:00a-pm IST),” it added.
If successful, the Super Heavy booster will make a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about eight minutes after liftoff today.
Starship’s upper-stage spacecraft will make a partial lap around Earth, coming down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii around 90 minutes after launch.
“With a test such as this, success is measured by how much we can learn, which will inform and improve the probability of success in the future as SpaceX rapidly advances development of Starship,” the company said.
Musk had previously said that there is only a 50 per cent chance that the first-ever orbital mission of SpaceX’s huge Starship vehicle will be a success. But he also stressed that SpaceX is building multiple Starship vehicles at the South Texas site.
These will be launched in relatively quick succession over the coming months, and there’s about an 80 per cent chance one of them will reach orbit this year.
SpaceX aims to use Starship as a fully reusable transportation system to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, help humanity return to the Moon, and travel to Mars and beyond.
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San Francisco: SpaceX’s Starship is likely to launch on the first orbital flight by April end, CEO Elon Musk said.
“Starship launch trending towards near the end of third week of April,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Monday.
A day ago, he had said that the “Starship is ready for launch. Awaiting regulatory approval”.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is yet to grant licence approval for the orbital test flight.
The agency on Monday issued a revised notice that said the launch could now happen on April 17.
Another hurdle is federal environmental compliance review.
Meanwhile, SpaceX has been long gearing up for the flight. The company has rolled its Ship 24 out to Starbase’s orbital launch pad.
It has also conducted fuelling tests with Booster 7 on the orbital launch mount, with Ship 24 on the ground nearby.
Starship is the world’s most powerful rocket and will be used to send humans to the Moon and then eventually to Mars.
It consists of a giant first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 50 metres upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship.
Both stainless-steel vehicles are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, and both are powered by SpaceX’s next-gen Raptor engine — 33 for Super Heavy and six for Starship.
Moreover, Musk recently said that there is only a 50 per cent chance that the first-ever orbital mission of SpaceX’s huge Starship vehicle will be a success.
But he also stressed that SpaceX is building multiple Starship vehicles at the South Texas site.
These will be launched in relatively quick succession over the coming months, and there’s about an 80 per cent chance one of them will reach orbit this year.
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