The date is official, now that a launch license from the FAA has come through.
Starship consists of a giant first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship. Both of these vehicles are designed to be fully reusable, and both are powered by SpaceX's next-generationAs the above tweet notes, the upcoming test flight will lift off from Starbase, SpaceX's facility in South Texas. It will involve a Super Heavy prototype called Booster 7 and the Ship 24 upper-stage variant.
If all goes according to plan, Booster 7 will splash down in the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles off the Texas coast around eight minutes after liftoff. Ship 24, meanwhile, will keep flying, conducting a partial lap of Earth before coming down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
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