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Elon Musk: SpaceX’s next-generation heavy-lift launch vehicle Starship may try to launch next month

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The United States SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk today revealed through social media, SpaceX may try to launch the next generation of heavy launch vehicle “Starship” in March.

Elon Musk said in a reply to netizens that if the remaining tests go well, we will try to launch the starship next month.

According to previous information, SpaceX plans to use the starship for future manned flights around the moon, to Mars and other space exploration. it home learned that Elon Musk has said that very confident to send it into orbit.

Currently, the most recent flight of the starship was in 2021, the prototype SN15 rose to an altitude of 10 kilometers above the ground without super heavy boosters, and then returned to the ground for a smooth landing.

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If all goes well with Starship’s first orbital flight, more testing activities will follow in 2023. Right now, SpaceX is participating in NASA’s Artemis Moon program, which plans to use starships to send cargo and astronauts to the moon.

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