After a last - minute scrubbing on April 17 , Starship is finally quick to take the sky . The launch windowpane opens at 9.28 am EDT ( 1:28 promethium UTC ) on Thursday , April 20 and Elon Musk promises that while it might not be successful , it will be anything but ho-hum . Starship is a vast project for SpaceX , quite literally . It is going to be the bad projectile ever build up and send off to infinite .

In an audience withMorgan Stanley , Musk said that SpaceX had work up multipleStarshiprockets and that overall there ’s an 80 percent luck that one of them will reach field this year . late suborbital trajectory of Starship had an volatile stopping point , as the craft wentkaboom on landing place .

One of the reward of Starship is that it can be fueled in orbit . This will allow it to get refueled in low - Earth orbit before getting to the Moon . There , it will rendezvous with the Orion spacecraft , which will take the cosmonaut into lunar orbit , and the astronauts will board Starship to get down to the Moon .

spaceship is 50 time ( 164 animal foot ) magniloquent but when on its superheavy booster , it hit 119 meters ( 390 feet).Artemis I , the current record holder for most powerful launch , was 98 meters ( 322 feet ) magniloquent with the crew compartment . spaceship is plan to move both crew and shipment into orbit . And every part of it is reusable .

When it comes to freight , SpaceX would like to hire spaceship to bring more Starlink satellites to orbit than have already been sent up on Falcon 9 skyrocket . Starlink is at the mall of several controversies as the number of satellites is pretend professional astronomy and they bestow to the pollution of thenatural dark sky . Musk plans to have at least 12,000 Starlink satellite in orbit , potential outnumberingnon - Starlink satellitesfive to one .

Another exciting likely use for Starship is head - to - point suborbital Earth transportation . Those are flight from two different place on the major planet , which require going up ten-spot of kilometer and at high - upper , to reach somewhere else very quickly . For example , the long continuous escape , from Singapore to New York , takesalmost 19 hours . Starship might be able to do it in about one minute .

The launching will be pour live bySpaceX on YouTubeand societal media .

This article has been update to let in the new launching escort .