A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage reached orbit for the 14th time, while Starship will soon go orbital for the first time ever.
In fact, the company just carried out a record 14th launch of a Falcon 9 first stage, breaking its own record for reusability. That record-breaking launch took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 9:20 p.m. EDT Saturday , and it launched 32 Starlink internet satellites andUnlike Falcon 9, Starship is composed of two fully reusable elements: the 165-foot-tall Starship upper stage and Super Heavy.
to develop a Starship upper stage as the lunar lander for its Artemis III moon landing mission, and SpaceX also aims to send humans to Mars using Starship by the 2030s.SpaceX is preparing for its much-hyped first orbital Starship flight, which will involve Ship 24 and a Super Heavy named Booster 7.
If preparations continue to go as planned, SpaceX may even launch Starship to orbit before NASA's Space Launch System achieves the same feat for the Artemis I lunar mission. Following earlier this month, the launch of SLS was pushed back even further into October due to a scheduling conflict with NASA and SpaceX's Crew-5 Falcon 9 launch to the International Space Station.for the Artemis program, which will take the first woman and first person of color to the moon and will be the first crewed moon landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.
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