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CTOnews.com, March 30 (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 April.

Aerospace blogger @ DutchSatellites revealed that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in the final stage of issuing a license for the first orbital launch test of SpaceX's Starship starship, and SpaceX could get permission within two weeks.

According to the data disclosed by Musk, due to the use of recyclable design, the cost of a single launch of the Starship rocket is only about US $2 million. Corresponding to its low orbit carrying capacity of 100T, it can reduce the cost of launching into orbit per kilogram of payload to an astonishing US $10, which will have the potential to revolutionize the space industry.

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

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.

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