How to watch Monday’s launch attempt.

NYT SCIENCE: How to watch Monday’s launch attempt.
By The New York Times
Section: Science
Source: New York Times
Published Date: April 16, 2023 at 03:00AM

The new moon and Mars vehicle built by Elon Musk’s company will conduct a test flight to space as early as Monday morning.

Starship could lead to a new upheaval in the economics of sending things to space because, for the first time, the entire rocket would be reusable. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has made the analogy that air travel would be unaffordable if the airplane were thrown away after one flight.

If a rocket were entirely reusable, the cost of each launch would mainly be the fuel, and Mr. Musk said a cost of a Starship launch could fall to under $10 million, or under $100 per kilogram for a payload weighing 100 metric tons.

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