When can we expect a Ship 24/ Booster 7 final full stack?
SpaceX rolled out Ship 24 on April 1st, after a lengthy stay at the rocket garden.
The rocket was parked there to make space (🙄) at the launch complex, which was buzzing with vehicles. S25 had cryo tests there before it was moved to the Massey’s site, and S26 also spent some time on one of the suborbital launch pads.
The question now, on everybody’s minds is when we might actually see S24/B7 stacked, as that could possibly mean a launch in the very near future.
Responding to Eric Berger on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk clued us in, saying a Ship 24 lift could be “more than days away but hopefully not many weeks away”.
If you’re wondering what that actually means, so am I. But if you’ll allow me to speculate, what that could possibly mean is that there are some processes or tests that SpaceX might need to conduct in the near future, and success or failure with those could then determine the timeframe for S24/B7 operations.
There is, at the time of writing, NO set launch date for Starship Super-Heavy, and no details about the FAA launch license (which SpaceX cannot launch Starship without) have been disclosed. A late-April launch doesn’t seem off the table yet though.
When do you think Starship Super-Heavy will launch? April? First half of 2023? Comment below.🚀 Thanks for popping in, I’ll see you soon!
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