{"id":144984,"date":"2021-11-18T01:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T01:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=144984"},"modified":"2021-11-18T01:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T01:48:25","slug":"elon-musk-says-spacex-will-hopefully-launch-first-orbital-starship-flight-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-hopefully-launch-first-orbital-starship-flight-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says SpaceX will &#x27;hopefully&#x27; launch first orbital Starship flight in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk on Wednesday said SpaceX is &quot;hoping&quot; to launch the first orbital flight test of its mammoth Starship rocket in January, depending on testing and regulatory approval.<\/li>\n<li>Starship is the massive, next-generation rocket\u00a0SpaceX is developing to launch cargo and people on missions to the moon and Mars.<\/li>\n<li>The company&#x27;s\u00a0next major step in testing Starship is launching to orbit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk on Wednesday said SpaceX is &quot;hoping&quot; to launch the first orbital flight test of its mammoth Starship rocket in January, a schedule that depends on testing and regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ll do a bunch of tests in December and hopefully launch in January,&quot; Musk said, speaking at a meeting of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Space Studies Board.<\/p>\n<p>Starship is the massive, next-generation rocket\u00a0SpaceX is developing to launch cargo and people on missions to the moon and Mars. The company is testing prototypes at a facility in southern Texas and has flown multiple short test flights.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX wants Starship to be fully reusable, with both the rocket and its booster capable of landing after a launch to be recovered for future flights. SpaceX&#x27;s Falcon 9 rockets are partially reusable. The company can regularly land and re-launch the boosters but not the upper portion, or stage, of the rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#x27;s\u00a0next major step in developing Starship is launching to orbit. First, the company\u00a0needs a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration\u00a0for the mission, with the regulator expecting to complete a key environmental assessment by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Musk noted that he wasn&#x27;t sure if Starship would successfully reach orbit on the first try, but emphasized that he is &quot;confident&quot; that the rocket will get to space in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We intend to have a high flight rate next year,&quot; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX aims to launch as many as a dozen Starship test flights next year, he said, to complete the &quot;test flight program&quot; and move to launching &quot;real payloads in 2023.&quot; He stressed that creating a mass production line for Starship is crucial to the program&#x27;s long-term goals, noting that the current &quot;biggest constraint&quot; on rocket manufacturing is how fast the company can build the Raptor engines needed for Starship.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think, in order for life to become multiplanetary, we&#x27;ll need maybe 1,000 ships or something like that,&quot; Musk said. &quot;The overarching goal ofSpaceX has been to advance space technology such that humanity can become a multi-planet species and, ultimately, a spacefaring civilization.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Although SpaceX has a $2.9 billion contract from NASA to develop Starship for delivering astronauts to the moon&#x27;s surface, Musk said the company is &quot;not assuming any international collaboration&quot; or external funding for the rocket program.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;[Starship] is at least 90% internally funded thus far,&quot; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has raised billions in funding over the past several years, both to fund Starship and its satellite internet project Starlink, with the company&#x27;s valuation recently hitting $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong> SpaceX reveals plan for orbital flight test of its Starship rocket<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/17\/elon-musk-spacex-will-hopefully-launch-starship-flight-in-january.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk on Wednesday said SpaceX is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk says SpaceX will &#x27;hopefully&#x27; 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