Elon Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor, SpaceX, plans its 11th test flight of its massive rocket, Starship, Monday evening. Starship was designed to someday take astronauts to the Moon and potentially, one day, to Mars. Video courtesy: SpaceX.
SpaceX has won major NASA Artemis mission contracts with Starship, which is the tallest and most powerful rocket ever launched.
Before Monday, the company had completed 10 test flights of its Starship rocket system since April 2023. Its prior Starship test flights included five failures, a partial failure and four successes.
The SpaceX test flight will proceed with the FAA and NASA’s help despite a federal government shut down. As CNBC previously reported, the space agency granted NASA employees an exception and required some to work, unpaid for now, on Artemis missions through the shutdown.
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