{"id":240901,"date":"2023-11-15T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=240901"},"modified":"2023-11-15T07:40:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:40:53","slug":"elon-musk-says-starship-to-launch-friday-months-after-first-attempt5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/elon-musk-says-starship-to-launch-friday-months-after-first-attempt5\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Starship to launch Friday &#8211; months after first attempt5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Elon Musk says Starship will launch by FRIDAY &#8211; after the 4\/20 maiden voyage saw the rocket explode four minutes into flight<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elon shared on X that Starship could be ready to launch by Friday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SpaceX has been waiting for regulatory approval following the April launch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0 SpaceX&#8217;s Starship failed to separate in April and exploded<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has received approval for a Starship launch that could liftoff on Friday, six months after the giant rocket&#8217;s maiden voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Starship is deemed the world&#8217;s largest and most powerful rocket, comprised of the Super Heavy Boost and rocket, and last took off on April 20 in a mission that ended with it exploding mid-air four minutes into flight.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was supposed to see the 395-foot-tall craft blast 150 miles high into the atmosphere before cruising for an hour and crashing into the Pacific Ocean, but SpaceX was forced to activate the flight termination system.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as SpaceX was awaiting final regulatory approval by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which was conducting an environmental review of the previous prototype.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/14\/77784729-12747969-image-a-2_1699972816708.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk announced Monday that SpaceX has received approval for a Starship launch that could takeoff Friday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77784395-12747969-image-a-1_1699975064101.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Starship is deemed the world&#8217;s largest and most powerful rocket, which will be used to colonize Mars , and last took off on April 20 in a mission that ended with it exploding mid-air four minutes into flight<\/p>\n<p>The FAA must issue a launch license for a second test to be attempted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The regulator completed its safety review of Starship in October, but the project still needs a sign-off from the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the license to be given.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX posted on X on November 10 that it expects the second flight test to happen as early as November 17, pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<p>Along with waiting for approval, the company has been working to fix the launch pad that was destroyed during the maiden voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Musk shared on November 13 that this approval should happen in time for SpaceX to meet this deadline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch,&#8217; Musk wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The massive rock comprises the Super Heavy Booster and Starship, capable of releasing 16.7 million pounds of thrust at liftoff &#8211; more than double that of the Saturn V rockets used to send Apollo astronauts to the moon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77786225-12747969-image-a-2_1699975195773.jpg\" height=\"518\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s Starship rocket took off from South Texas at 9:33 am ET for the maiden flight that would have seen it complete a near circle of Earth, but SpaceX pulled the trigger that exploded Starship mid-air when the separation of the two stages failed<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s flight is expected to follow the same guidelines as the one in April, but the world hopes to see a different outcome.<\/p>\n<p>On April 20, the rocket ignited its engines at\u00a09:33 am ET while standing tall on the Boca Chica, Texas launchpad.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Elon Musk&#8217;s doomed Starship rocket sprayed debris over Texas coast\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/15\/77786301-12747969-image-a-3_1699975292125.jpg\" height=\"154\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>The explosion sent debris flying at thousands of miles an hour, damaging a car parked miles away and sending a dust cloud over the Gulf of Mexico on an otherwise sunny day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mission took off with promise as Starship traveled 1,242 miles per hour through the sky, climbing higher and higher with each second.<\/p>\n<p>Cheering inside the control room became louder and louder as Starship inched its way toward space.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX Principal Integration Engineer John Insprucker said the rocket was preparing for stage separation at the three-minute mark two minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>The main engine cut off at two minutes and 51 seconds as planned, but the cone of the upper stage flipped back toward Earth &#8211; and the rocket went into a tailspin at three minutes and 31 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, SpaceX&#8217;s team had not yet given up on the mission, noting that they were awaiting stage separation even though the rocket was spinning in circles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It looks like we saw the start of the flip, but obviously, we&#8217;re seeing from the ground cameras the entire Starship stack continuing to rotate,&#8217; Insprucker said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We should have had separation by now obviously, this does not appear to be a nominal situation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>At three minutes and 59 seconds, a fireball shot out from the Super Heavy, and the stack was obliterated mid-air.<\/p>\n<p>The livestream panned to teams in the control room cheering at the rocket&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s leadership \u2013 including Musk \u2013 has repeatedly stressed the experimental nature of the launch and said any result that involved Starship getting off the launchpad would be a success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-12747969\/Elon-Musk-Starship-launch-Friday-orbital-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk says Starship will launch by FRIDAY &#8211; 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