Elon Musk: SpaceX’s 6 crucial PROBLEMS must be FIXED before the orbital launch in November…
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Last month, something happened in SpaceX’s Boca Chica development facility that hasn’t happened before: The company successfully ignited all six engines on its latest Starship prototype and seven engines on the Starship Super Heavy prototype’s “Booster 7”. Those were the highest number of their new Raptor engines ever tested simultaneously, marking another crucial step toward Starship’s deployment.
So, how close are we to Starship Orbital Flight?
These are 6 vital crucial problems that SpaceX must be done to have the Starship orbital flight in November.
Let’s go from the easiest task for the SpaceX team, so make sure you watch the video till the end:
And the great thing is that this time, the FAA license likely comes most easily.
“The thing that’s really holding them up is the FAA approval to launch.”
That’s the word from Wendy Whitman Cobb, a professor in space policy at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.
Cobb has a point: To launch Starship to orbit, the Federal Aviation Agency required SpaceX to undergo an environmental review. The process has taken over a year, and the agency finally published a list of 75 “mitigations” in June of 2022 that SpaceX must deploy in order to keep launching Starship prototypes.
Luckily, Greg Autry, a commercial space industry expert shared that many of the FAA’s 75 terms are “very trivial, non-engineering requirements” that can be completed at the same time as others.
Elon Musk: SpaceX’s 6 crucial PROBLEMS must be FIXED before the orbital launch in November…
