2023-04-17 09:17:07
DECRYPTION – SpaceX could launch its new Starship launcher, designed to be fully reusable, into space on Monday, April 17.
Whatever the result, the first flight of SpaceX’s new giant rocket, scheduled for Monday April 17 at 7 a.m. in Texas (2 p.m. in Paris) should be spectacular. « Success maybe, excitement guaranteed ! », summarized on Twitter Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX. The American billionaire was only waiting for authorization from the American Civil Aviation Authority (FAA), which was issued to him on Friday.
The Starship launcher, 120 m high, is the rocket of all superlatives. It is the largest and most powerful ever built, exceeding in take-off thrust that of the mythical Saturn V of the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s. But, above all, this new rocket is intended to be completely reusable, recovering not only the first stage, as is already the case for Falcon 9, but also the second, a much more complex operation.
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