Starship Yet To Get Regulatory Clearance For Upcoming Flight But Elon Musk's SpaceX Hopeful For Friday Launch

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Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX said on Monday that it made several hardware and operational changes to its Starship launch vehicle after the mishap in January and ahead of its upcoming flight test expected on Friday.

What Happened: For the upcoming test flight on Friday, SpaceX is eyeing Starship’s first payload deployment and experiments aimed at returning the upper stage of the two-stage vehicle to the launch site for catch.

SpaceX will attempt to deploy four Starlink simulators on its next flight, similar in size to the next generation of Starlink satellites.

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