SpaceX hopes to fly the Starship rocket for a fourth time next month, cutting the turnaround time by half. The main milestones are testing the heatshield and ensuring the rocket survives the reentry.
The world’s biggest space rocket of all time, Starship, is planned to lift off from Boca Chica, Texas, for a fourth time this May, Elon Musk announced on Twitter. This would mean SpaceX has cut the time between launches by half to just two months.
It also means that there were indeed no big concerns from the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), which has to issue the flight license for SpaceX before the launch can happen.
Starship’s third integrated test flight was a huge spectacle for spaceflight enthusiasts and a huge win for SpaceX’s engineers, who gathered a lot of crucial real-life data across the planned flight profile.
