{"id":51138,"date":"2024-06-07T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacexs-musk-suggests-tweaks-to-starship-following-test-flight-completion\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:00:35","slug":"spacexs-musk-suggests-tweaks-to-starship-following-test-flight-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacexs-musk-suggests-tweaks-to-starship-following-test-flight-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Musk Suggests Tweaks to Starship Following Test Flight Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> completed its first test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, the company\u2019s CEO Elon Musk outlined potential next steps for the launch vehicle in a series of posts to X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>Musk stated that after Starship sustained some minor damage during the mission and lost shielding tiles, SpaceX would augment the SX300 alloy used on Starship to withstand higher temperatures.&nbsp;The company is also working on a version of Starship that has its \u201cforward flaps shifted leeward to help improve reliability and ease of manufacturing,\u201d Musk posted.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Musk hinted that SpaceX could attempt a Starship touch down on land instead of a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico in the near future, but the SpaceX CEO has admitted he has a history of getting ahead of himself on social media. He has also recently stated that Starship will fly six times in 2024. SpaceX\u2019s June 6 launch was its fourth ever Starship launch, with previous attempts in April 2023, November 2023, and March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Starship\u2019s success on Thursday is a significant step forward for SpaceX in its mission to take people and cargo to the surface of the Moon as part of NASA\u2019s Artemis mission. NASA hopes the 121 meter-tall, 5,000 ton rocket will be the first to carry crewed missions to the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission back in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after SpaceX completed its first test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, the company\u2019s CEO Elon Musk outlined potential next steps for the launch vehicle in a series of posts to X (formerly Twitter). Musk stated that after Starship sustained some minor damage during the mission and lost shielding tiles, SpaceX would augment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}