{"id":117207,"date":"2021-06-25T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=117207"},"modified":"2021-06-25T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:10:40","slug":"spacex-aims-to-launch-first-orbital-starship-flight-in-july-company-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/spacex-aims-to-launch-first-orbital-starship-flight-in-july-company-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX aims to launch first orbital Starship flight in July, company president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk&#x27;s SpaceX is &quot;shooting for July&quot; to launch the first orbital spaceflight of its Starship rocket, company president Gwynne Shotwell said on Friday.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I&#x27;m hoping we make it, but we all know that this is difficult,&quot; Shotwell said, speaking at the National Space Society&#x27;s virtual International Space Development conference.<\/li>\n<li>The company in May revealed its plan for the flight, which would launch from the company&#x27;s facility in Texas and aim to splash down off the coast of Hawaii.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk&#x27;s SpaceX is &quot;shooting for July&quot; to launch the first orbital spaceflight of its Starship rocket, company president Gwynne Shotwell said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m hoping we make it, but we all know that this is difficult,&quot; Shotwell said, speaking at the National Space Society&#x27;s virtual International Space Development conference.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are really on the cusp of flying that system, or at least attempting the first orbital flight of that system, really in the very near term,&quot; Shotwell added.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has conducted multiple short test flights of Starship prototypes over the past year, but reaching orbit represents the next step in testing the rocket. The company in May revealed its plan for the flight, which would launch from the company&#x27;s facility in Texas and aim to splash down off the coast of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Starship prototypes stand at about 160 feet tall, or around the size of a 16-story building, and are built of stainless steel \u2013 representing the early version of\u00a0the rocket that Musk\u00a0unveiled in 2019.\u00a0The rocket initially launches on a &quot;Super Heavy&quot; booster, which makes up the bottom half of the rocket and stands about 230 feet tall. Together, Starship and Super Heavy will be nearly 400 feet tall when stacked for the launch.<\/p>\n<p>The company is developing Starship to launch cargo and people on missions to the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>While SpaceX&#x27;s fleet of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets are partially reusable, Musk&#x27;s goal is to make Starship fully reusable \u2014 envisioning a rocket that is more akin to a commercial airplane, with short turnaround times between flights where the only major cost is fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t think that people really have even comprehended what that system is going to do,&quot; Shotwell said.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that Musk &quot;feels in a huge hurry&quot; to develop Starship and create &quot;a sustaining capability that will take people to the Moon and Mars.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That means it&#x27;s not one ship every two years, right? We have to be able to fly dozens of ships during the timeframe when you can get people to Mars,&quot; Shotwell added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Become a smarter investor with\u00a0<\/em><em><strong>CNBC Pro<\/strong><\/em><em>.<\/em><br \/><em>Get stock picks, analyst calls, exclusive interviews and access to CNBC TV.\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>Sign up to start a\u00a0<\/em><em><strong>free trial today<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/25\/spacex-aims-to-launch-first-orbital-starship-flight-in-july.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#x27;s SpaceX is &quot;shooting for July&quot; to launch the first orbital spaceflight of its Starship rocket, company president Gwynne Shotwell said on Friday. &quot;I&#x27;m [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SpaceX aims to launch first orbital Starship flight in July, company president says - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/spacex-aims-to-launch-first-orbital-starship-flight-in-july-company-president-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SpaceX aims to launch first orbital Starship flight in July, company president says - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elon Musk&#x27;s SpaceX is &quot;shooting for July&quot; 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