In the first half of March, the founder of the aerospace company SpaceX, Elon Musk, announced that the first test flight of the new version of the Starship spacecraft rescheduled The meeting was originally scheduled for March 9, but the deadline has now been pushed back another month or even a month and a half, according to the billionaire's latest statements.
Yesterday he confessed X, the social media platform, announced that the test flight of the latest version of Starship has been postponed by four to six weeks, until the first half of May. It is generally believed that SpaceX is continuing to refine the spacecraft to ensure not only the highest possible payload for lunar missions but also adequate reliability for reusability.
Starship's previous test flight, the eleventh in its development life cycle, took place on October 11th of last year, but it involved a second-generation vehicle. Considering that SpaceX recently filed IPO application, then aerospace failures are certainly not necessary for Elon Musk to protect its reputation. The Artemis 3 mission, scheduled for mid-2027, involves the docking of the Orion spacecraft with a lander in low-Earth orbit. The latter will be provided by either SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's rival Blue Origin, so the success of the third version of Starship is crucial for Elon Musk to realize his personal ambitions.
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