SpaceX is planning a Monday morning test flight of the massive Starship rocket at 7 a.m. CT which is expected to ultimately take passengers to Mars and the moon.
Available to view via live webcast, the largest rocket ever built will launch with no crew, marking its first flight test. Opening at 7 a.m. CT Monday, the scheduled 150-minute testing timeframe has been noted as “dynamic and likely to change.” The livestream of the flight test will start (roughly) 45 minutes prior to liftoff.
Targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK pic.twitter.com/Ry25Uuvknh
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 14, 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration approved the nearly 400-foot-tall rocket launch this past Friday, departing from a secluded site near Boca Chica Beach on the southernmost point of Texas.
“Success maybe, excitement guaranteed!” SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted Friday night.
The Starship vehicle will orbit the globe before splashing down off the coast of Hawaii. SpaceX will not try to land vertically on this initial flight test, nor will it attempt to catch the booster, expecting that to splash down 20 miles off the coast of Boca Chica following the launch.
Intended to eventually transport up to 100 people on interplanetary flights, Starship’s flight test will “inform and improve the probability of success in the future as SpaceX rapidly advances development of Starship,” SpaceX stated.
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