Spacex prepares for Friday a new Starship test flight

The launch window from the Starbase station in Boca Chica, Texas, begins at 5:30 p.m. (23h30 GMT), waiting for the approval of the agency that regulates air traffic.

This will be the eighth test of Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, which Spacex will broadcast live.

The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) He put Starship on the ground after his January 16 flight will end with the upper disintegrated On the Islands of Turks and Caicos, in the Caribbean.

Under the standard procedure, Spacex must still complete its “failure investigation” and this must still be approved by the FAA, or alternately make a requirement to fly again without having finished its report.

FAA did not immediately respond about the status of said investigation.

For the next flight, Spacex has made several modifications in the upper stage of the rocketwhich according to the company seek to improve the confidence and performance of the ship.

The mission is expected to last about an hour and will include a new attempt to catch the propellant stage using the so -called “sticks” in the launch tower, a technical feat that Spacex has managed to perform twice.

In addition, the company will try to deploy simulators designed to imitate the next generation satellites of Starlink, the Musk Internet satellite network.

Starship is key to Musk’s vision of colonizing Mars, while the American space agency (NASA) awaits a modified version of the rocket that serves to alunizar, one of the objectives of its Artemis program, which wants to take astronauts to the moon.

But before these ambitious objectives, Spacex must first prove that Starship is safe for manned missions.