SpaceX company, owned by Elon Musk, has been working on the Starship rocket, which is planned to take part in major missions such as establishing a base on the Moon and Mars, and traveling from point to point. continues its work. In a presentation held today, the company gave information about the new rocket and showed how the rocket that will be launched with a giant launch system will look like.
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In the shared video, we see that the Starship, which is on a large booster, leaves the booster after leaving our planet and continues to move towards its target. Leaving the rocket, this booster returns to the arms on the launch pad.
Stating that the booster of the rocket can stay in the air for 2 minutes during the ascent and 4 minutes during the return journey, Elon Musk states that the new system can be used again every six to eight hours in the future. Also, Musk said that Starship will cost less than $10 million in two to three years, compared to Falcon 9, which costs $60 million per flight.
SpaceX, which is planning to launch Starship, which is expected to offer hundreds of tons of weight carrying capacity, from the Boca Chica facility in Texas, named Starbase, has not yet received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) . However, it is thought that the expected evaluation reports from the FAA will come in March, and we can say that the first test flights of the new rocket can be made close to this date.
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