Spacex Elon Musk It prepares to launch an eighth flight test to a Startship from the Chico bottle in Texas, which could be exploded as soon as this Friday until the Federal Air Force Administration (FAA) gives its approval.
“Starship Flight 8 flies on Friday,” said Musk, Executive Director of Spacex, in a Sunday post.
For the first time, the upcoming flight has planned implementation of useful load and more experiments at the re -entry directed to the return of the upper stage to the launch site to catch it.
Starting will also include the return and catch of Super Heavy Booster that will break the rocket from the launch.
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The Starship Flight 7 is launched from Starbase in Texas before his upper phase was lost. (Associated Press)
During the flight test, the Starship will implement four Starlink Simulators, which are approximately the same size as the new generation Starlink satellite, Spacex said.
Starlink Simulators will be arranged in the same area as the Star Brod, and is expected to burn after re -entry.
While the Starship is in space, Spacex also plans to alleviate one engine raptor.
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The Starship Flight 7 is launched from Starbasea, Texas. (Associated Press)
If everything goes as planned, the starting window will open at 6:30 pm.
Starting comes more than a month after Spacex launched the Startship Flight 7 from the Starbase test in the Boca Chica bottle, which resulted in the Starship experienced a “quickly unplanned disassembly” almost 12 minutes in flight.
AND Super severe enhancer He pulled back to Earth, where he was maneuvering to launch and grabbing his hands on Starbase, resulting in a second successful catch of Super Heavy.
Starship, however, was not so successful.
“The Starship has quickly experienced unplanned disassembly during its climb,” Spacex said in a statement on January 16th. “The teams will continue to review the data from today’s flight test to better understand the basic cause. With such a test, success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will help us improve the reliability of the Starship.”
Spacex explored what the Starship fell apart, although the investigation remains open.
In order for Fas Fas to reject the Starship, FAA must give its approval, which could come in several ways.
2023 FAA issued a five -year license to Spacex for Texas launchwhich is revised for each starting in the event of a modification for things like a rocket trajectory. The FAA could approve of approval after the specifics of the mission and licenses are executed, FAA for Fox News Digital told FAA.
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But also a long -term investigation into the Starship Flight 7 accident. In order to fly again, the investigation should be closed and the FAA must accept the findings. In particular, FAA measures whether the incident has exposed public security to danger.
At the time of this writing, the investigation was not closed and the FAA did not give approval. However, it is common for approval to be issued a day or two before the launch, FAA noted.
Spacex did not respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment on the matter.
Louis Casiano Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
