SpaceX Aims To Launch Starship Once Every 2 Weeks By Late 2025, CEO Elon Musk Says 'We Will Be Much Faster'
SpaceX Aims To Launch Starship Once Every 2 Weeks By Late 2025, CEO Elon Musk Says 'We Will Be Much Faster'
We will be much faster than thatSpaceX is aiming to reach a cadence of one Starship launch every two weeks "faster" than late 2025, company CEO and billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday.
spacex計劃在2025年底前，每兩週進行一次Starship發射，比現行速度"更快"，公司首席執行官、億萬富翁埃隆·馬斯克在週日表示。
What Happened: Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders said at the National Congress of Space Activities held in Matamoros late last week that the company is looking to launch one Starship every two weeks by late 2025.
星基地總經理凱西·呂德斯上週末在馬塔莫羅斯舉行的國家太空活動大會上表示，該公司計劃在2025年底前每兩週發射一次Starship。
"We will be much faster than that Musk," wrote on X on Sunday, accelerating the timeline provided by Lueders.
「我們會比那個馬斯克快得多，」週日在X上寫道，加快了呂德斯提供的時間表。
We will be much faster than that
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2024
我們將比那個更快
— 埃隆·馬斯克(@elonmusk) 2024年11月10日
Last week, SpaceX said that it is planning its next and sixth flight test of its ambitious Starship launch vehicle as early as Nov. 18. For the next test flight, the company aims to catch Starship's booster back at the launch site as on the last flight and splash down the upper stage in the Indian Ocean.
上週，spacex表示計劃在11月18日或更早時進行其雄心勃勃的Starship運載火箭的下一次和第六次飛行測試。在下一次測試飛行中，公司的目標是像上次那樣在發射場捕捉Starship的助推器，將上面級階段濺落在印度洋中。
Past Flights: On Starship's fifth flight test in October, it lifted off from Starbase, and the booster returned to Earth after propelling Starship to space. The booster was subsequently caught by the launch tower at Starbase.
在十月的星艦第五次飛行測試中，它從Starbase升空，助推器將星艦送入太空後返回地球。助推器隨後被Starbase的發射塔捕獲。
The Starship, meanwhile, went on to space and splashed down on target in the Indian Ocean.
與此同時，星艦前往太空，並按計劃在印度洋上着陸。
The recovery of the booster was a key objective of the flight test and demonstrated the reusability of the Starship's design. SpaceX is aiming to make the Starship a completely reusable spacecraft that can fly multiple times, thereby reducing the cost of spaceflight.
助推器的回收是飛行測試的一個關鍵目標，並展示了星艦設計的可重複使用性。spacex正致力於使星艦成爲一個完全可重複使用的飛船，可以多次飛行，從而降低太空飛行的成本。
The test flights before the one in October accomplished less. Starship flew for the first time in April 2023.
十月之前的測試飛行完成度較低。星艦於2023年4月首次飛行。
Why It Matters: Starship is key to NASA's dreams of taking humans back to the surface of the Moon.
爲什麼重要：星艦對NASA重返月球表面的夢想至關重要。
NASA's Artemis 3 mission slated to launch no earlier than September 2026 is expected to enable humans to land back on the surface of the moon with the help of a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft. The last time humans set foot on the Moon was in 1972 with Apollo 17. Since then, no crew has traveled beyond low-Earth orbit.
預計NASA的Artemis 3任務將在2026年9月或之後啓動，有望通過Starship航天器的月球着陸器變體使人類再次登上月球表面。人類上一次踏足月球是在1972年的阿波羅17號任務。自那時以來，沒有任何人員前往低地球軌道以外的地方。
Musk, meanwhile, is eyeing taking humans to Earth's neighboring planet Mars aboard the Starship. In September, he said that the first Starship launch to Mars is expected in 2026 and that it will not have a crew on board.
與此同時，馬斯克計劃將人類搭乘星艦前往地球的鄰近行星火星。他在九月份表示，預計2026年將進行首次前往火星的星艦發射，而該發射任務不會搭載機組人員。
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