The era of Starship could still roar into life this week.
Unfortunately, theonly eight minutes before liftoff due to a frozen valve on the Super Heavy first-stage booster.
Now, SpaceX has a new launch window, and it opens on Thursday, April 20. A 62-minute launch window will open on that day at 9:28 am EDT , SpaceX wrote in its updated mission description. Memes have, unsurprisingly, come rolling in, as the date — 4/20 — is significant to marijuana enthusiasts and to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who made anStarship was designed to be fully reusable so as to dramatically reduce the cost of successive launches. For Thursday's Orbital Flight Test , however, SpaceX will attempt to launch the massive rocket to orbit for the first time., will make a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico roughly eight minutes after launch.
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