SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk announced he foresees first orbital flight of Starship will be happen by the end of February. The scheduled date has been changed due to FAA Approval.
FAA approval is the schedule driver. Their latest update says end of February.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2021
Musk, replying to the tweet by Sirine on Wednesday he told his prediction about the first orbital flight launching next year. ‘FAA approval is the schedule driver. Their latest update says end of February’ he replied to the tweet.
SpaceX, under the management of the FAA, is nowadays inaugurating reactions for the over 18,000 social statements obtained on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA). SpaceX is also readying the Final PEA for the FAA‘s survey and approval.
As formerly declared, the FAA had scheduled to publish the Final PEA on December 31, 2021. Nonetheless, due to the high quantity of statements adapted on the Draft PEA, conversations and consultation undertakings with consulting groups, the FAA is declaring an update to the schedule. The FAA presently schedules to release the Final PEA on February 28, 2022.
Extra features about Elon Musk’s space agency agendas are anticipated to arise over the following few days. Also, 2022 could be a year to recall for orbital flights and SpaceX.
