SpaceX is keen to cut the waiting time between Starship flights and says it should be ready to fly the rocket again soon. But the FAA will have the final say.
SpaceX launched the mighty Starship for the first time in April last year, but it took a full seven months before it got airborne again.
Following the second test flight in November, SpaceX managed to get the Starship off the launchpad again just four months later in a spectacular flight that took place last week.
Now the Elon Musk-led team is aiming to blast the world’s most powerful rocket to space for a fourth time as early as May.
While SpaceX engineers need time between launches to examine data from the previous test mission, the time between flights has also been impacted by investigations into each mission, overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
