Musk says SpaceX will launch after recent explosion: Elon Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX, told Reuters that the Starship rocket booster. Which the company intends to use for an initial launch into space, will “probably” return to its launch mount in Texas the following week after a testing explosion on Monday.
Musk wrote in an email, “Damage is minor, but booster will move back to the high bay for inspections. Returning to the launch stand probably next week.”
When the booster’s engine section caught fire on Monday, it sent a shockwave miles across the South Texas facility. The promoter is the towering first half of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket system.
SpaceX has launched early versions of Starship’s top half a few times in the past. Around 6 miles (9.66 km) above the earth. But the firm has never sent the fully stacked. Almost 400 foot (121.92 m)-tall rocket system into orbit, a far more complex operation.
Musk says SpaceX will launch after recent explosion
The corporation had set a goal of completing the first orbital flight by the end of the summer to reach a crucial turning point in the construction of the rocket. But Monday’s explosion placed that plan into doubt.
After the explosion, the Federal Aviation Administration. Which is in charge of regulating launch and rocket re-entry safety, said it was in “close communication” with SpaceX. But declined to begin a formal inquiry since the mishap did not occur during a scheduled launch campaign.
SpaceX’s founder and chief engineer, Elon Musk, has previously stated that the rocket booster will wheel back to its hangar for a closer examination of its 33 Raptors rocket engines.
According to Musk’s tweet from Wednesday, if testing goes well. The orbital Starship test might take place “as soon as next month.”
The Starship is the centerpiece of Musk’s plan to transport people and goods to the moon and Mars. NASA chose the rocket last year to launch the first human team to the moon’s surface since the American Apollo mission.
Starship create at SpaceX’s expansive Boca Chica, Texas, facilities, and the company intends to use its Cape Canaveral. Florida, launch facilities in the future to launch the rocket.
