We analyze all SpaceX 2020 plans with regard to Starship, Starlink and of course their very first crewed mission of sending astronauts to the ISS. Besides the SpaceX updates, we also briefly talk about India's new Chandrayaan-3 moon mission for…
We analyze all SpaceX 2020 plans with regard to Starship, Starlink and of course their very first crewed mission of sending astronauts to the ISS. Besides the SpaceX updates, we also briefly talk about India's new Chandrayaan-3 moon mission for 2020.
New buildings and huge tents have been erected at SpaceX Boca Chica spaceport. The SpaceX Boca Chica launch pad will soon be ready for Starship prototype test flight and also future SpaceX Super Heavy booster launches.
Starship Mk3 prototype has now been renamed to Starship Serial Number 1, so Starship SN1. We think Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship schedule is a bit too optimistic and we expect Starship SN1 prototype to be finished in mid 2020.
The very first SpaceX Falcon 9 Crew Dragon launch with humans on board could already take place in the second quarter of 2020, if the crucial Crew Dragon inflight abort test will be successfully completed in January 2020.
Finally delivering NASA astronauts to the ISS with the Crew Dragon capsule will be an important milestone for SpaceX in 2020, since this would further demonstrate the reliability of SpaceX's rocket technology and launch systems, and might even lead to future joint NASA-SpaceX moon or Mars missions.
Two Falcon 9 launches for the SpaceX Starlink satellite deployment are planned for January, and North America can already expect SpaceX Starlink internet coverage by the end of 2020.
After the failure of Chandrayaan-2, India just announced their new Chandrayaan-3 moon mission which plans to land a rover near the lunar south pole in November 2020.
We hope to see more space agencies chartering SpaceX's launch systems for their moon missions and SpaceX Starship landing on the moon marking the first step of an international moon colony.
