FINALLY! SpaceX is OFFICIALLY Launching Their New Starship To Orbit 2022!
SpaceX is just months away from its 20th anniversary of founding in 2002 and it’s headed into a new year in a stronger position than ever. In 2021, the California-based company built its strength in fields ranging from broadband communications to human launches. The steady push by SpaceX into space exploration and eventual Mars landings is rapidly disseminating into popular culture, especially in the form of its fiery CEO and founder Elon Musk, who puts musings and predictions on Twitter almost daily. This year alone, Musk began (reportedly) accepting payments for missions in the cryptocurrency Dogecoin and made a Saturday Night Live guest appearance in which he participated in multiple skits, even playing the Nintendo supervillain Wario.
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Musk gave an interview in Time Magazine (where he was named the 2021 individual of the year) in which he outlined the vision for the company.
“The goal overall has been to make life multi-planetary and enable humanity to become a spacefaring civilization,” Musk told Time, discussing usual aspects of his vision including reusable rockets and landing on Mars.
SpaceX will try to fly a Starship to orbit for the first time early next year if all goes according to plan.
The company is targeting January or February for its first Starship orbital launch attempt, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday (Nov. 17). And that initial landmark leap will ideally be followed by a number of others shortly thereafter.
“We intend to do, hopefully, a dozen [Starship] launches next year,” Musk said during a live-streamed presentation at the joint fall meeting of the Space Studies Board and Board on Physics and Astronomy, both of which are part of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. “Maybe more.”
Starship consists of two elements, both of which are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable: a huge first-stage booster known as Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall (50 meters) spacecraft called Starship. Both are powered by SpaceX’s next-generation Raptor engine, six in the case of Starship and 29 for Super Heavy (at the moment at least; the booster will eventually sport 33 Raptors, Musk said).
SpaceX is developing this ambitious transportation system to get people and payloads to the moon, Mars, and other distant destinations.
“Ultimately, Starship is designed to be a generalized transport mechanism for the greater solar system,” Musk said.
SpaceX has launched a handful of test flights with Starship prototypes from its “Starbase” facility, which is near the South Texas village of Boca Chica. But those hops reached a maximum altitude of about 6 miles (10 kilometers) and featured vehicles with just three engines.
The upcoming orbital test flight will involve a Starship prototype called SN20, which has the full complement of six Raptors, and a 29-engine Super Heavy known as Booster 4. The duo will lift off from Starbase. Booster 4 will splash down shortly after liftoff in the Gulf of Mexico, but SN20 will make one loop around Earth and come down in the Pacific Ocean, near the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
SpaceX could not launch the mission right now even if it wanted to, because the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting an environmental assessment of the orbital launch activities at Starbase. That review is expected to wrap up by Dec. 31, FAA officials announced recently, and SpaceX intends to get off the ground not long after.
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