Elon Musk has given the first update in two years on the progress of SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket, the most powerful launch vehicle ever built.
“Let’s make this real,” Elon Musk said to a crowd of enthusiastic supporters on Thursday night after watching a dramatic animation depicting a future Starship mission to a city on Mars.
The presentation took place at SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas, with the Starship rocket — comprising the extremely powerful Super Heavy first stage and the Starship second stage — forming a dramatic backdrop for the event. Musk said he hopes to send Starship on its first orbital test flight next month, though hitting that target date depends on the outcome of an environmental assessment being conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration . If the FAA fails to give permission to launch from Boca Chica, Musk said the test flight would likely be delayed for several months as the hardware would have to be moved to a launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, around a 1,000 miles to the east.
Starship will be the most powerful rocket ever launched when the 120-meter-tall vehicle finally gets off the ground. Its thrust capability of 72 meganewtons will be just over twice that of the Saturn V vehicle that powered astronauts toward the moon five decades ago.
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