Prediction: 400 Starships to launch in 4 years as SpaceX abandons its most popular rocket | 30.11.24

Elon Musk’s dream of Martian fever is growing by leaps and bounds. October marked perhaps the best performance yet for Musk’s still-in-development Starship, when SpaceX’s flight test 5 successfully secured a re-entry super-heavy booster in the air using a mechanical “chopstick” on the rocket’s launch and landing tower. A month later, Flight Test 6 aborted the turret capture—a disappointment—but achieved perfect water landings of both the Super Heavy and the Starship rocket’s second stage, as well as a successful restart of at least one Starship engine in orbit. (which was another technical goal of the flight tests). Impressed by SpaceX’s rapid progress, once the results were in, the US Federal Aviation Administration allowed SpaceX to increase the frequency of Starship launches fivefold, from five launches per year to 25. But even 25 launches per year is not enough for SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool