ET Kenneth Chang andSpaceX is trying for a third time to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on a journey part of the way around Earth.
The vehicle flew twice last year from a SpaceX launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
There is a 110-minute window during which the flight could launch, so the company could launch later as is often the case during test flights.
The Starship system consists of two stages — the Super Heavy rocket booster and the upper-stage spacecraft, which is also called Starship.
SpaceX’s second Starship flight, on Nov. 18, achieved several milestones, including an in-flight procedure called hot staging in which the upper-stage engines start firing before the booster stage drops away.
Persons:
Kenneth Chang, Elon Musk, SpaceX’s
Organizations:
SpaceX, NASA, SpaceX’s, New York Times
Locations:
Boca Chica , Texas, Gulf of Mexico