News about SpaceX, Starship

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.

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

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."

"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/