Starbase, Texas– A Bijenkorf of space technicians, construction workers and space fans descended this weekend on Zuid -Texas Prior to the next test flight from SpaceX's Gigantic Starship Rocket, the largest vehicle of its kind ever built.
Tower -high 404 feet (123.1 meters) long, the rocket will get up during a one -hour launch window that starts at 6.30 pm CDT (19:30 EDT; 23:30 UTC) Sunday. The most important care for Sunday's launch attempt will be the weather conditions in Starbase, a few miles north of the border between the US and Mexico. According to SpaceX, there is only 45 percent chance of favorable weather for launch on Sunday.
It will take about 66 minutes for the rocket from the launch platform in Texas to a Splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean northwest of Australia. You can view the test flight live on the official website of SpaceX. We have now also embedded a live stream from SpaceFlight and Labpadre below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QMKNQKRSIM
This will be the 10th full test flight of the spaceship and its super heavy booster stage. It is the fourth flight of an improved version of the spaceship as a step to a more reliable, heavier-Duty version of the rocket that is designed to wear a maximum of 150 tonnes, or about 330,000 pounds, from freight to almost everywhere in the inner part of our solar system.
But this iteration of spaceship, known as block 2 or version 2, has been anything but reliable. After playing a series of more and more successful flights last year with the first generation Starship and Super Heavy Booster, SpaceX has encountered repeated setbacks since the debut of Starship version 2 in January.
Now there are only two Starship version 2s left to fly, including the vehicle ready for the launch Sunday. Subsequently, SpaceX continues to version 3, the design intended to go all the way to a track with a low earth, where it can be refueled for longer expeditions in deep space.
