Elon Musk’s Starship continues to be delayed for test flight
The Starship comes from the aerospace company’s SpaceX Elon Musk continued to delay the test flight schedule due to the incomplete environmental assessment.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May 31 again delayed the completion of the final environmental assessment for the rocket projects of the United States. SpaceX proposed in Boca Chica, Texas, according to Engadget.
Private aerospace company SpaceX intends to launch the Starship rocket on its first test flight in January or February, provided the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completes a programmatic environmental assessment. (PEA) of the company’s South Texas spaceport by December 31 as planned.
However, the US Federal Aviation Administration announced that it had pushed back the review deadline to February 28, citing the “large number of comments submitted on the draft PEA” and the need for “deliberations”. discussions and consultations with different parties”. Since then, the evaluation deadline has been postponed several times, the most recent being May 31. Now, this regulatory agency continues to set a new deadline for this environmental assessment to be June 13.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that SpaceX had made several amendments to its application and asked the FAA for additional review.
Starship is designed to send goods and people to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said in February that he was “confident” the new spacecraft would reach Earth orbit for the first time this year.
SpaceX is still aiming for the world’s first private Moon mission in 2023 by orbiting the Moon in a Starship spacecraft and returning to Earth.
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