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full screen The spaceship Spaceship at launch in March this year. Photo: Eric Gay/AP/TT
Likely within three to five weeks. Then it’s time for a new launch of the space company Space X’s giant Starship rocket, writes the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk in a post on X on Saturday.
Starship is the vehicle that American Space X has planned to take people to the moon and eventually also to Mars.
The new postponement will be the fourth.
The first two times – in April and November last year respectively – the craft exploded during launch.
The third, carried out in mid-March this year, was more successful. Then the Starship took off into space but burned up during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Space X has a stated strategy of streamlining its development through “trial and error”, where you get to test quickly and learn from any mistakes.
Now Musk also writes on X about what Space X wants to achieve this time:
“The goal is for the craft to get past (the time of) maximum heating or at least longer than last time”.
In another post on X on Saturday, Musk writes, next to a picture of the spacecraft:
“Starship prepares for space flight”