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CTOnews.com, March 15 (Xinhua)-- SpaceX completed its first full static ignition test of a starship / starship (Starship) last month and plans to conduct its first orbital test flight at its South Texas base in March or April.

According to Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, the first orbital mission of the SpaceX starship is basically a coin flip. The $3 billion spacecraft has only a 50 per cent success rate for its maiden flight, and the results will be announced in the coming weeks.

"I'm not saying it's going to fly into orbit, but I'm sure it's definitely exciting," Musk said in an interview at the Morgan Stanley conference. "it's definitely not boring!" I think it has (may succeed), I don't know, about 50% chance of getting into orbit. "

Although he did not specify what the failure would be, based on the history of SpaceX's previous suborbital flight tests, CTOnews.com believes that Starship's failure to reach orbit means it is likely to explode.

He also mentioned that even if the first orbital test flight is not successful, SpaceX is building more starships. Overall, he thinks there is an 80% chance that one of them will be on track by the end of the year, but "it may take us several years to achieve fully rapid reusability."

According to SpaceX, the starship is designed to send people and cargo to the moon and Mars, as well as a variety of other space missions. Musk said the giant stainless steel rocket will be the most powerful rocket in history and will have 2.5 times the thrust of the NASA Saturn V when it takes off.

SpaceX is building starships at its base in southern Texas, which the company calls "interstellar base" (Starbase), and plans to achieve "relatively rapid continuous launches" in the coming months.

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