SpaceX plans to step up the cadence of Starship-Super Heavy flight tests, with a sixth launch designed to build on last month’s successful booster landing catch.
A SpaceX Super Heavy booster flew itself back to its Boca Chica Beach, Texas, launchpad where it was caught by a pair of mechanical arms on the gantry.
With 32 of its 33 Raptor engines firing, the Super Heavy booster lifted off from SpaceX’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport at after a trouble-free countdown.
The FAA on June 4 cleared SpaceX to proceed with the fourth Integrated Flight Test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system, with the launch targeted for June 6.
SpaceX’s plan to launch its Starship-Super Heavy reusable Mars-class space transport from KSC will require a full environmental impact statement, the FAA said.
Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.
