Elon Musk Said SpaceX is planning to attempt a launch of its Starship spacecraft in March

Elon Musk Said SpaceX used to be planning to try to launch its reusable Starship rocket into orbit in March “if last checks go well.”

The SpaceX CEO’s remark got here in response to a Twitter person asking if Starship was once nearly geared up for launch.

SpaceX pursues to reveal with the launch that Starship can raise crew on missions with NASA to “Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond,” its internet site states.

NASA awarded SpaceX with a contract really worth shut to $3 billion in 2021 to create an industrial human lander for Starship to land people on the moon as part of its Artemis program. Two crewed missions to the moon, Artemis three and 4, are predicted to launch in 2025 and 2027.

Musk before teased in January that it would make a launch try “soon” and signaled that it may want to be as early as the stop of February or March.

The Starship take a look at flight will launch from the Starbase spaceport website online in Boca Chica, Texas, federal filings show. Its rocket booster, Super Heavy, will return to land at Starbase or in the Gulf of Mexico, in accordance to the filings, whilst Starship will land in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX is but to formally announce a date for its Starship launch and did now not right away reply to Insider’s request for comment.

A take a look at of prototype for Super Heavy closing July at the Boca Chica testing facility failed as flames burst from the engines on its take a look at pad and an explosion sounded.

After a video of the explosion was once shared on Twitter, Musk tweeted: “Yeah, genuinely now not good. The crew is assessing the damage.”