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- After numerous suborbital tests, SpaceX is set to attempt the first test flight of its Starship rocket this Thursday. Takeoff is scheduled for 15:28 Paris time.
- The set, consisting of a super-heavy launcher topped by a Starship, is 120 meters high. Nothing so powerful has ever risen from the surface of the Earth.
- NASA will study this flight very closely: it has chosen this spacecraft to land its astronauts on the moon for the first time in more than half a century during the Artemis 3 mission, officially scheduled for 2025. Elon Musk would like to do this. his Mars rocket.
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Good morning ! This could be a big day for SpaceX: if all the lights are green, the US company is due to lift its Starship rocket between 3:28 pm and 4:30 pm (Paris time) this Thursday.
Source: Le Parisien
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