The Federal aviation administration, the U.S. issued a license to conduct test flights of the suborbital spaceship Starship created by the company SpaceX Elon musk.
“SpaceX is allowed to execute multiple missions at the launch of the carrier rocket with the prototype ship Starship. Takeoff and landing within the flight missions are permitted under this license, will be performed at the spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas”, – the TASS the text of the document.
The license provides for possibility of repeated flight. The main limitation is the impossibility of reaching orbit. However, previously issued by the Federal office of civil aviation USA license to run SpaceX rocket Starhopper contained more stringent height restrictions.
Ship Starship with a length of 50 meters and a diameter of 9 meters made of alloy steel, its stated capacity is 150 tons. This space reusable spacecraft designed to fly to Mars and has a capacity of 100 people.
We will remind, on April 3 of this year’s second prototype spaceship Starship for interplanetary flight development of the company SpaceX Elon musk has burst when tested in the state of Texas.
