Livestream of the SpaceX Starship launch
made final preparations early on Monday to launch its powerful new Starship rocket system to space for the first time, on a brief but highly anticipated uncrewed test flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas.
“Probably, tomorrow will not be successful, he said. “It’s just a very fundamentally difficult thing.” But neither stage will be recovered for the expendable first test flight to space, expected to last no more than 90 minutes. If all goes as planned on Monday, all 33 Raptor engines will ignite simultaneously to loft the Starship on a flight that nearly completes a full orbit of the Earth before it re-enters the atmosphere and free-falls into the Pacific at supersonic speed 97km off the northern Hawaiian islands.
The ship will be coming in like a meteor. This is the first step in a long journey that will require many flights
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