{"id":1291844,"date":"2022-02-11T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291844"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:37:44","slug":"elon-musk-starship-could-reach-orbit-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-starship-could-reach-orbit-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: Starship Could Reach Orbit This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-starship-could-reach-orbit-this-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1291844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238379529-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket could be successfully launched into orbit by the end of 2022.&nbsp;Musk stated, \u201cOptimistically, toward the end of next year. I would be surprised if it is longer than two years for doing the refilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusk said that his biggest challenge was on refilling oxygen aboard the ship, rather than fuel as it needed 3.5 times more liquid oxygen,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10501083\/SpaceX-CEO-Elon-Musk-says-Starship-make-launch-year-awaiting-FAA-approval-March.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is attempting to gain a launch license from the FAA, which is considering giving approval to launch Starship out of Boca Chica, Texas. \u201cThe agency is responsible for ensuring that launches to orbit do not pose a hazard to uninvolved people or property,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/2\/11\/22927706\/elon-musk-spacex-starship-update-boca-chica-texas\">The Verge<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>Musk stated, \u201cWe don\u2019t have a ton of insight into the way things stand with the FAA. We have gotten sort of a rough indication that there may be an approval in March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FAA cleared SpaceX to launch out of Boca Chica back in 2014, even prepping a full environment impact statement, or EIS, to detail how the launch site would affect the surrounding area and wildlife refuge. But that approval was decided back when SpaceX planned to launch its smaller Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets from the area,\u201d The Verge added.<\/p>\n<p>If the FAA balks at giving approval for a Moca Chica launch, Musk has said he would relocate the launch to NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Musk explained his reasoning for wanting to use the Boca Chica base; it permits Musk more experimental flights than Cape Canaveral, Florida. He stated, \u201cBecause we have had a lot of launches going out of the Cape, we didn\u2019t want to disrupt the Cape activity, the operational launches, with sort of the advanced R&amp;D of Starship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was important to decouple the operational launches from the R&amp;D launches,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have the alternative of the Cape,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd we actually applied for environmental approval for launch from the Cape a few years ago and received it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a time pressure to get the Starship into orbit to give it plenty of time for testing ahead of the Artemis III mission \u2013 scheduled for 2025 \u2013 which is the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972. It will see the NASA crew of the Orion descend to the lunar surface on the&nbsp;Starship Human Landing System and stay on the Moon for a week, and&nbsp;will&nbsp;require multiple Starship orbital refillings,\u201d The Daily Mail explained.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who wants to build a self-sustaining city on Mars, stated, \u201cWhy build a giant reusable rocket, why make life multi-planetary? I think this is incredibly important thing for the future of life itself\u2026I completely agree that the vast majority of resources should be dedicated to solving problems on Earth\u2026I\u2019d say like more than 99 percent of our resources should be oriented towards solving problems on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket could be successfully launched into orbit by the end of 2022.\u00a0Musk stated, \u201cOptimistically, toward &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}