SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Monday that the mighty Starship rocket is ready for its fourth test flight, but there's one obstacle that still needs clearing.
The spaceflight company is keen to send the 120-meter-tall megarocket on its fourth test flight as early as Thursday, June 6. But to meet that increasingly tight deadline, it needs a flight permit from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Related It’s from here that the Starship launched on its first three test flights, two of them last year and the most recent one in March 2024. SpaceX said that the fourth test flight will focus on demonstrating the ability to return and reuse the Super Heavy and the Starship vehicles by executing a landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico with the Super Heavy booster, and achieving a controlled entry of Starship over the Indian Ocean.
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