SpaceX is expected to launch its “Starship” rocket prototypes over 12 miles above the earth’s surface within the next seven months according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
Founder and CEO, Elon Musk, is urgently racing to develop the Starship. This fully reusable rocket system was designed to land on the moon for NASA and could even one day take around 100 people to Mars at once.
Musk reportedly urged employees to shift their focus to the Starship project shortly after SpaceX successfully sent 2 astronauts to the International Space Station using a different rocket in early June. Aerial photos also show a frenzied increase in activity at the company’s rocket development site in Boca Chica, Texas.
Read more HERE