Elon Musk wrote 'congrats to SpaceX' on completing the corrective actions required by the FAA to fly Starship again.
for its first Starship test flight, and it launched soon after it announced it was awaiting FAA approval to fly.
SpaceX will once again aim to get Starship into orbit when it does fly. If it does reach orbit, it will perform a partial orbit of Earth before targeting a hard splashdown in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Much like with Starship's first launch, reaching orbit isn't guaranteed. Musk recently said he believes Starship has aof reaching orbit on its second try after SpaceX made "well over a thousand" changes to the rocket.
SpaceX designed Starship to be the world's most powerful launch system and the first fully reusable rocket. The reusability will dramatically lower the cost of successive launches, making human spaceflight to Mars possible and fulfilling Elon Musk's ambitions to make humanity a multi-planetary civilization.
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