American billionaire Elon Musk began preparing the public for a failed space launch.
What is known
Starship will be used in 2025 forlanding people on the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. Also, the spacecraft should take part in manned missions to Mars in 20 years. However, to begin with, he needs to successfully pass flight tests at least once.
Elon Musk promised that the first testThe test flight of Starship will take place in December 2022. Then the launch was postponed to the first quarter of 2023. Now the head of SpaceX says that the test flight will probably take place next month. in April, and he will have no more than a 50% chance of success.
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SpaceX CEO is not ready to guarantee that withthe first attempt the spacecraft will be able to reach orbit. However, Musk is confident that the test will be impressive and not boring. It should also be noted that SpaceX will conduct several tests in 2023, and the overall chance that the ship will reach orbit is up to 80%.
Starship is focused primarily ondelivery of people and cargo to Mars and the Moon, but the ship will perform other tasks. For example, launching massive and high-performance second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit.
The new spaceship will be the most powerfulsystem in the world. It consists of the ship itself, Starship, with six Raptor engines and a first stage with 33 Raptor engines. The first stage is called Super Heavy.