SpaceX is aiming to perform the first orbital test flight of the Starship on Monday. A successful launch will make it the most powerful rocket ever to fly.
SpaceX is just hours away from attempting the first orbital flight of the Starship, the most powerful rocket ever made.
The launch window for the uncrewed test flight, which will lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, opens at 7 a.m. local time (5 a.m. PT).
But in a Spaces session on Twitter on Sunday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk would only say that it “might” launch tomorrow, adding that if the SpaceX team spots anything that gives it concern, it will postpone liftoff.
“This is not like, you know, some sort of train leaving the station at precisely like 9:03 a.m. or something like that,” Musk said.
The SpaceX chief added that the first-stage Super Heavy booster has 33 Raptor engines, which will create a record-breaking 17 million pounds of thrust at launch, and so “if any one of them goes wrong, it’s like having a box of grenades.
