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NASA's Amit Kshatriya says at an advisory committee meeting this morning that the agency expects SpaceX to attempt its next Starship/Super Heavy test flight by the end of May.
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Some SpaceX charts showing how the company believes it can use Starship to establish a lunar base (from its DARPA LunaA-10 study, being discussed today at the LSIC meeting.) pic.twitter.com/NPRc2UoiD4
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According to NASA's Amit Kshatriya, SpaceX is working toward the fourth Starship flight test before the end of May. Says IFT3 was "a great success."
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"The premise was that, if we’re really going to go to Mars, the first thing we’re going to have to do is set up a bunch of equipment. I left SpaceX knowing the width of the Starship door, and we made the biggest thing that could pass through it."
arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/astrolab-tacks-toward-a-future-where-100s-of-tons-of-cargo-are-shipped-to-the-moon/
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SpaceX's latest high-altitude Starship test flight ends in another explosion – Spaceflight Now
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SpaceX crashes another Starship prototype
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