The Starship prototype SN9 starts at the company’s development facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
SpaceX
Elon Musk’s SpaceX in his filing on Thursday revealed his plan for the next step in testing his massive spacecraft rocket in a flight that would hose down off the coast of Hawaii.
The company’s FCC records say it will launch a Starship prototype rocket on a “Super Heavy” booster stage at the SpaceX development facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Then the booster will separate to partially return “and land in the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles from shore,” the records said.
“The Orbital Starship will continue to fly between Florida Straits. It will enter orbit until a motorized, targeted landing is made in a soft ocean landing about 100 km off the northwest coast of Kauai,” SpaceX wrote on the file.
SpaceX’s Starship program continues to evolve rapidly. The company successfully completed the successful landing and recovery of the Starship SN15 last week. It was the rocket’s fifth high-altitude flight test and the first to end without the prototype exploding.
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