Starship Set for Liftoff: Elon Musk’s Big Monthly Goals for 2025

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SpaceX is gearing up for Starship’s first flight test of 2025 on Wednesday.

They have plans for up to 25 more launches this year, averaging 2 per month.

That is, if the FAA approves.

The 400-foot spacecraft comes loaded with upgrades and aims to tackle key milestones.

Elon Musk says he’s hoping for human missions to  Mars.

Still scratching my head on that one. I’m sure someone will tell him there’s a barrier before he tries it.

But in the meantime, enjoy the monthly launches!

USA Today reports:

The year ahead is shaping up to be a pivotal one for Starship, the massive spacecraft built and operated by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX – and it all could begin Monday with the vehicle’s first flight test of 2025.

The Starship’s seventh uncrewed flight test overall may end up being the first of a staggering 25 this year if Musk has his way. Musk, the founder and CEO of the commercial space transportation company, is hoping to win federal approval for SpaceX to quintuple the amount of flight tests conducted in 2024.

But while SpaceX awaits the decision of the Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, a “new generation” Starship will fly through the skies, the company said in an update on its website.

The new 400-foot Starship vehicle will feature a number of new upgrades and objectives, building on the milestones SpaceX hit in 2024 – including the landmark rocket booster catch the company pulled off in October. And in a first, the Starship on Monday will attempt a Starlink payload deployment test – a key capability for the vehicle in the future.

“This new year will be transformational for Starship, with the goal of bringing reuse of the entire system online and flying increasingly ambitious missions as we iterate towards being able to send humans and cargo to Earth orbit, the moon, and Mars,” SpaceX said in a statement.

When is the next Starship flight test?

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a launch license for the next Starship flight test on Dec. 17, clearing the way for SpaceX to once again launch the world’s largest rocket from south Texas.

This has been quite a year so far, as this post points out.

And we’re not even 2 weeks in! Wasn’t it just Christmas?

SpaceX needs to replace NASA.

They’re not going anywhere, anyhow. They’re just wasting billions of taxpayers dollars and countless bottles of hairspray.



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