Musk: SpaceX next-generation heavy carrier rocket Starship may try to launch next month

CTOnews.com, February 5 (Xinhua)-- Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX), revealed through social media today that SpaceX may try to launch the next generation of heavy carrier rocket "Starship" in March.

Musk replied 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 starships to carry out manned flights around the moon and to Mars and other space exploration in the future. CTOnews.com learned that Musk had expressed great confidence in putting him on track.

Currently, the starship's last flight was in 2021, when the prototype SN15 rose to an altitude of 10 kilometers without a super-heavy booster and then successfully returned to the ground and landed.

▲ source: SpaceX if the first orbital flight of the starship goes well, there will be more testing activities in 2023. Currently, SpaceX is participating in NASA's Artemis moon landing program, which plans to use starships to send cargo and astronauts to the moon.