SpaceX stands in front of a huge jump towards Musk's dream of colonies on Mars

SpaceX is about to send his spaceship - the strongest rocket ever built - into the orbit to test the reality of life on Mars.

The company hopes to be able to carry out a start test on Monday, the founders Elon Musk brings his dream to colonize the red planet.

SpaceX published photos of the huge spaceship this week, which is supposed to send astronauts to the moon and beyond, on his starting ramp at the company headquarters in Boca Chica, Texas.

"Spaceship fully stacked in Starbase," said SpaceX in a tweet. "The team is working on a starting test next week, followed by Starship's first integrated flight test ~ a week later until the official approval is available."

SpaceX needs green light from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before it can carry out the test start. Space observer with eagle eyes pointed out that the FAA planning document listed a start on April 10 with reserve days on April 11th and 12th.

If everything goes according to plan, the orbital flight will take off from Texas before landing off the coast of Hawaii.

The company carried out a successful start of the 33 Raptor engines in February on the Starship first level booster.

The 230-foot super-Heavy-Booster, which even exceeds the massive Saturn V, which first sent NASA astronauts to the moon, was anchored on the ground during the test fire, which is referred to as a static fire to prevent it from lifting.

The engines were ignited in a roar of orange flames and waving steam clouds.

Thirding the 33 Raptor rocket engines of the Super Heavy lit for about 10 seconds.

"The team parked 1 engine shortly before the start and 1 stopped itself, so a total of 31 engines ignited," tweeted Mr. Musk. "But still enough engines to reach the orbit!"

Starship consists of a reusable capsule that would transport crew and freight, and the huge booster of the first stage.

The billionaire Mr. Musk said that the first Starship start of orbitus has a probability of success of 50 percent.

But he believes that there is an 80 percent chance of reaching orbit by the end of the year. At a media conference by Morgan Stanley last month, he said: "I don't say that it will get into the orbit, but I guarantee tension. It is not boring."

mr. Musk wants to help “during our lifetime” to build a colony on Mars.

The development of Starship is partially financed by a NASA contract for $ 3 billion, which plans to use the SpaceX rocket in the next few years to land the first astronaut crew on the moon since 1972 as part of the US-heavy artemis program of the US space agency. that aims to build a permanent basis on the moon as a springboard for human research.

NASA selected the Starship capsule to transport its astronauts as part of the Artemis III mission, which was scheduled at the earliest in 2025.

The US space agency will bring Astronauten to the moon orbit with its own heavy rocket called Space Launch System (SLS), which has been in development for more than a decade.

Starship is both larger and more powerful than SLS.

It generates £ 17 million, more than twice as much as the Saturn V rockets with which the Apollo astronauts were sent to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s.

SpaceX provides to bring a spaceship into the orbit at some point and then refuel it with another spaceship so that it can continue his journey to Mars or beyond.

other super -heavy rockets that are in development are Blue Origins New Glenn, China's Long March 9 and Russia's Jenissei.

The development of the spaceship was made a lot of public, but was affected with difficulties.

SpaceX has already tested the spherical spaceship that sits on the booster several times. All of these flights were shorter "hops" in which the rocket flown to a height of about six miles before trying to land again.

All except for one of the tests ended with a crash.

his second complete test flight ended with a fiery crash landing, two months after another earlier attempt to land the vehicle ended in an equally explosive style.

The Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and managing director of the online fashion retailer Zozo, plans to use the spaceship to take a crew of artists on a journey to take the moon with optimistic plan for 2023