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FINALLY! SpaceX Starship is Launching INTO ORBIT!
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The move came simply over a month after the 230-foot-tall Booster 4 was first hoisted onto the pad, then topped with a prototype spacecraft called SN20, which is short for Serial No. 20, in the first-ever arrangement of a full-size Starship vehicle. The duo was then de-stacked, however, so that more work could be done on both elements. Starship is the transportation system that SpaceX has been developing to take people and cargo to the moon, Mars and other deep-space destinations. Super Heavy and the 165-foot-tall upper stage, which is somewhat confusingly called Starship, are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. SpaceX has conducted several 6.2-mile-high test flights with Starship prototypes, including a successful end-to-end tour by the SN15 vehicle this past May. No Super Heavy has launched off the ground yet, and SpaceX is grooming Booster 4 first. Booster 4 and SN20 will undergo the Starship program’s first-ever orbital test flight if all goes according to plan. Booster 4 will drop down in the Gulf of Mexico shortly after liftoff, and SN20 will power itself to orbit, circling our planet once before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Wednesday’s Booster 4 move could presage a series of trials intended to pave the way for that test flight. But it’s unclear when Booster 4 and SN20 will be able to get off the ground, no matter how well the various pre-launch trials may go. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is conducting an environmental assessment of Starship’s launch operations, and the end date of that review is unknown.
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