{"id":162207,"date":"2023-04-15T04:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/faa-gives-ok-for-spacexs-starship-test-flight-from-texas"},"modified":"2023-04-15T04:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T09:22:17","slug":"faa-gives-ok-for-spacexs-starship-test-flight-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/faa-gives-ok-for-spacexs-starship-test-flight-from-texas","title":{"rendered":"FAA gives OK for SpaceX\u2019s Starship test flight from Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faa-gives-ok-for-spacexs-starship-test-flight-from-texas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"_ap_link_Federal Aviation Administration_FAA_\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/FAA\">Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> issued the long-awaited license on Friday. <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"_ap_link_SpaceX_SpaceX_\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/SpaceX\">SpaceX<\/a> announced that Starship \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest and most powerful rocket \u2014 could soar as soon as Monday.<\/p>\n<p>No people or satellites will be aboard the 394-foot (120-meter) rocket. SpaceX will attempt to send the spacecraft atop the colossal booster around the world, from the southern tip of Texas all the way to <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"_ap_link_Hawaii_Hawaii_\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Hawaii\">Hawaii<\/a>. The first stage will be discarded in the Gulf of Mexico and the spacecraft into the Pacific. No landings will be attempted for this debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the long-awaited license on Friday. SpaceX announced that Starship \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest and most powerful rocket \u2014 could soar as soon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}