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\nWith Starship testing, SpaceX moves one step closer to making science fiction a reality<\/br>
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SpaceX is poised to conduct a wet dress rehearsal of the Starship launch system from its Starbase site in southeastern Texas, a major milestone in CEO Elon Musk\u2019s quest to turn long-haul interplanetary transportation from science fiction to reality.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the strongest signal yet that Starship\u2019s first orbital flight test could well and truly be imminent. The wet dress is a critical series of prelaunch tests that includes propellant loading of both the upper stage and booster, and a run-through of countdown to around T-10 seconds, or just before engine ignition. If no major issues crop up during the testing, the next step would be \u201cde-stacking,\u201d or the separation of the Starship second stage and Super Heavy booster. That would be followed by a full static fire test, where engineers would light up all 33 of the booster\u2019s Raptor 2 engines. The launch system would then be re-stacked before the first orbital flight test.<\/p>\n

This could all take place in a matter of weeks \u2014 March is not off the table for the orbital flight test \u2014 but that\u2019s assuming that everything goes well and no major mishaps take place (they\u2019re not unheard of<\/a>). It also assumes that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the body that regulates commercial launches, issues SpaceX the all-important launch license fairly soon. The FAA has been basically mum about the status of its evaluation of SpaceX\u2019s plans, though it\u2019s been conducting extensive assessments of the Starship launch program for some time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One can think about Starship as SpaceX\u2019s raison d\u2019\u00eatre, the means by which the company will, as Musk puts it<\/a>, preserve \u201cthe light of consciousness\u201d in the cosmos. Given that Starship could have the potential to put as much as 100 tons into orbit \u2014 and given that there is not yet a robust market to support and exploit such a capability \u2014 it seems clear that Starship was designed with Mars in mind. The company will likely end up spending billions of dollars to work toward this goal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just SpaceX that is betting big on Starship\u2019s success. NASA is also counting on Starship to work, to the extent that the agency made it a central piece of its Artemis moon program. In April 2021, NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract<\/a> to develop a version of Starship to land on the moon for the Artemis III mission, which will take place no earlier than 2024. The agency later expanded that contract by $1.15 billion to include a second crewed Starship mission<\/a> for later in the decade.<\/p>\n

But before any of that can happen, Starship needs to reach orbit. And it may happen sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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