SpaceX「星艦」發射升空 實施第12次試飛

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SpaceX’s new generation heavy-lift rocket, Starship, took off on Friday evening from the new launch pad at Starbase in southern Texas, conducting its 12th test flight.

The Starship system measures up to 400 feet tall and is a two-stage rocket system made up of the bottom Super Heavy Booster and the upper Starship spacecraft. It is equipped with upgraded Raptor engines and launched at 5:30 PM local time on Friday.

The objective of the test flight is to verify the performance of these new systems and new parts in a real flight environment. According to plan, the first-stage Super Heavy booster will make a controlled splashdown in waters near the Gulf of Mexico, and will not return to the launch site for recovery. After completing the test flight, the second-stage Starship spacecraft will make a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

The flight mission is currently in intense real-time propulsion, and the entire process is expected to last about one hour.

Starship is SpaceX’s core project marketed to investors. SpaceX is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), with an estimated valuation of $1.5 trillion or even higher. The rocket is designed to launch Starlink satellites, deploy the future AI satellite constellation that SpaceX plans to build, and support Elon Musk’s vision of exploration.

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