Elon Musk's SpaceX is "shooting for July" to launch the first orbital spaceflight of its Starship rocket, company president Gwynne Shotwell said on Friday.

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@TylerG1998 @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX It is! Looks like we can get 378 sec Isp with this version of Raptor Vacuum, so over 380 sec with some improvements down the road.

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Falcon 9 and 88 spacecraft are vertical on pad 40 ahead of today’s launch. The 58-minute window opens at 2:56 p.m. EDT, and the webcast will go live about 15 minutes before liftoff → spacex.com/launches

Elon Musk is speaking virtually at #MWC21 as SpaceX CEO. Livestream: mobileworldlive.com Thread:

@SpaceX Unfortunately, launch is called off for today, as an aircraft entered the “keep out zone”, which is unreasonably gigantic. There is simply no way that humanity can become a spacefaring civilization without major regulatory reform. The current regulatory…

Booster 3 is fully stacked in the High Bay!

@nextspaceflight There is the internal goal if things go right, which needs to be aggressive. Obviously, some things will not go right internally & there will be external issues too. That said, I think we can stack an orbital ship on an orbital booster in…

While SpaceX claimed that a county prosecutor may have been fed misinformation that led to “certain misunderstandings regarding certain facts,” it committed in a June 17 response letter to cooperat…

In previous blogs I’ve talked about how Lunar Starship can save the Artemis program to build a sustainable Lunar base. I’ve discussed how a Lunar Starship can deliver roughly 210 T to t…

@Erdayastronaut Great shot! Btw, Starship Super Heavy will not have an entry burn. Delta-v is shifted more to the ship, so booster entry Q & heating is lower.

@RenataKonkoly @Erdayastronaut First one to fly will, so Booster 4. Booster 3 will be used for ground tests. We’re changing much of design from 3 to 4. Booster 3 was very hard to build. Expect especially rapid evolution in first ~10 boosters & first ~30 ships.