SpaceX Starship Ready for Fourth Test Flight

TapTechNews on June 3rd, Elon Musk said on the X platform that SpaceX Starship is ready for the fourth test flight.

SpaceX officials announced yesterday that the fourth test flight of the Starship will start as soon as June 6 at the earliest, and is currently waiting for regulatory approval. (Previously, SpaceX said it would start as early as June 5.)

TapTechNews learned from the SpaceX official website that the focus of the fourth test flight will be to show the recovery ability of the Starship and the super-heavy rocket, and the main goal will be to use the super-heavy booster to perform landing burns and soft splashdowns in the Gulf of Mexico and achieve the controlled entry of the Starship. This test flight will follow a trajectory similar to the previous test flight, and the intended landing point is in the Indian Ocean.

The official said that the live webcast of the flight test will start about 30 minutes before takeoff, and the launch window will open as early as 7 a.m. Central Time in the US. However, there is still a possibility of subsequent changes to this time.