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Starship Test Flight: 3rd Time's the Charm?
Paxton Pettit
March 12, 2024
Frontier Focus Newsletter
Your Comprehensive Guide to the New Space Economy
G. Pettit here,
Welcome to the 12th edition of the Frontier Focus Newsletter, your top source for political, economic, and social developments in the New Space Economy and other emerging markets.
From breaking industry news and event announcements, to labor market reports and financial analysis, the glorious future has never been closer, nor a more entertaining read! Our mission is to collect and distill only the most newsworthy, exciting, and inspirational info for your weekly updates on the Second Space Age.
Join us on this journey into new frontiers.
This Week’s Next-Gen Newsflash
🚀 China targets 2030 for a world’s-first-ever Mars sample return, putting it in close competition with NASA’s similar timeline
🛰️ NASA just got its 2024 funding, and we doubt many space-lovers are very happy with it
☄️ One more month remains until the long-anticipated total solar eclipse of 2024
State of the New Space Economy
Two high profile explosions and a slew of regulatory scrutiny later, America’s favorite commercial launch company is potentially days away from launching the third (and possibly final) orbital test flight of its prototype Starship rocket.
Holding the record as the largest functioning rocket ever built, Starship embodies SpaceX’s vision of a multiplanetary humanity - requiring massive amounts of payload to be ferried across the solar system on an equally massive rocket.
In spite of the hype, Starship’s previous two orbital tests have ended in failure, with the rocket’s flight termination system engaged both times after multiple anomalies severed any chance of mission success. But not all hope is lost, for with valuable data gathered from the tests, SpaceX hopes that the third time might finally be the charm, aiming to launch as soon as March 14th, 2024.
As of this writing, SpaceX has been under intense Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and US Fish and Wildlife (USFW) scrutiny for the previous two explosions, casting concerns over NASA’s investment in commercial enterprise. With NASA having delayed the Artemis program’s return to the Moon for a third time as early as January, citing Starship architecture pace as one of the schedule-slowing line items, the pressure is on for consecutive orbital test successes for SpaceX to make good on its vision of a multiplanetary humanity.
Either way, the launch will be an exciting and fiery show that you won’t want to miss!
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