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Have you always dreamt to touch the sky? Spread your wings and fly away? Thanks to visionary company SpaceX, the private US aerospace manufacturer, and space transportation services company, their Starship which was teased earlier this year, is planned for its first commercial mission in 2021. SpaceX’s Starship test vehicle was announced at the Asia […]

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For those who dream about travelling to Mars, you'll be glad to hear that a commercial flight to space is set to become a reality soon. If all goes according to plan, in just two years SpaceX, the private US aerospace firm founded by Elon Musk, will make its first commercial mission to space in 2021. The announcement was made recently at the Asia Pacific Satellite Conference in Indonesia.

[inline-quote author="Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX’s Vice President of Commercial Sales"]"We are in discussions with three different customers as we speak right now to be that first mission. Those are all telecom companies."[/inline-quote] Both Starship, the launch system of the vehicle, and its rocket booster, Super Heavy, will be subject to rigorous tests in the coming months. SpaceX already conducted a “hop” test of the Starship prototype in April, which launched it several centimetres off a launchpad and into the air.

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The actual spacecraft that will fly the mission is, however, still a work in progress. Two teams based out of Texas and Florida are building two separate versions of the spacecraft. The idea is to design a vehicle that will carry 20 metric tonnes to geostationary orbit and over 100 metric tonnes to low Earth orbit.
While the aim is to eventually use the vehicle to transfer payloads to the Moon and Mars, SpaceX is also looking at the possibility of point-to-point transfers on earth. According to Hofeller, “The goal is to get orbital as quickly as possible, potentially even this year, with the full stack operational by the end of next year and then customers in early 2021.”

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The CEO of investment platform Fundnel sees past dollars and cents to weigh both the social impact and monetary aspect of a transaction.

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The CEO of investment platform Fundnel sees past dollars and cents to weigh both the social impact and monetary aspect of a transaction.

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along.

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along.

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