WASHINGTON, Apr 16 American entrepreneur Elon Musk confirmed that his company SpaceX intends to conduct the first test launch of the Starship spacecraft on Monday.
“Launch attempt tomorrow,” he tweeted.
SpaceX has previously announced that this is the first full-fledged flight test of a «fully integrated» complex consisting of the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy launch vehicle.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has included a launch from the Boca Chica Space Center in Texas in the coordinated space launch schedule with the main date of April 17 and a backup «window» of April 18-21.
SpaceX builds reusable spacecraft Starship for deep space missions. According to Musk's idea, it is Starship that will be used to send people to the Moon and Mars.