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There is not another living breathing human who has expressed the desire as well as the capability to give me that other than Musk. As long as I can remember it has been my dream to see space and other worlds. March 28 remains the target date for completing a key environmental review, an FAA spokesman told CNBC. SpaceX CEO and billionaire Elon Musk revealed that his company will 'hopefully' conduct its first orbital test flight of Starship in January or February 2022. Unpopular opinion: I find it really hard not to simp over Elon.
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SpaceX requires a license from the Federal Aviation Administration. Although this milestone was expected to be reached last year, development progress has been delayed and the orbital flight test is also still pending regulatory approval. SpaceX has conducted several high-altitude tests with Starship prototypes, but the next big step is reaching space. In February, Musk gave a presentation about Starship at the company’s starbase facility in Texas, outlining the way forward and the obstacles to testing the missile. Elon Musk on Wednesday said SpaceX is hoping to launch the first orbital flight test of its mammoth Starship rocket in January, depending on testing and regulatory approval.
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The rocket and its Super Heavy Booster are powered by SpaceX’s Raptor series of engines. Starship is the nearly 400-foot-tall, reusable rocket that SpaceX developed with the goal of creating a vehicle capable of carrying cargo and groups of people beyond Earth. SpaceX is developing Starship to take people and cargo to the moon, Mars, and beyond. “We will have 39 airworthy engines built by next month, then another month for integration, so hopefully in May for orbital flight testing,” Musk tweeted in response to CNBC. SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket will hopefully take its first orbital flight in May, company founder and CEO Elon Musk has said.
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Elon Musk on Monday provided an update on the timeline for SpaceX’s first orbital launch of the company’s next-generation Starship rocket.