'SpaceX will be ready to launch Starship in a few weeks, then launch timing depends on FAA license approval.'
Starship consists of a giant first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship. Both stainless-steel vehicles are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, and both are powered by SpaceX's next-gen Raptor engine — 33 for Super Heavy and six for Starship.
Starship has flown before, but only on short hops that reached a maximum of 6 miles or so above Earth. And those vehicles were upper-stage prototypes sporting three or fewer Raptors; no Super Heavy variant has ever left the ground. That will change on the coming orbital try, which SpaceX has been working toward for a long time now. (The most recent Starship test flight occurred nearly two years ago, in
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