SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday announced that the launch of Starship's fourth test flight is slated for June 6. This mission, boasting of numerous enhancements, is set to take off from SpaceX's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas .
Musk posted the news on the social media platform X.com. He expressed his excitement about the improvements loaded into Starship Flight 4. He noted that the primary objective of the mission is to go deeper in the atmosphere upon re-entry—to endure maximum heating.
SpaceX, in a blog post, detailed the fourth flight test as the path toward orbit, demonstrating the capability to recover and reuse Starship and Super Heavy components. Essential will be the landing burn and safe splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico by the Super Heavy booster, and controlled entry of Starship.
In the pursuit of greater reliability, SpaceX announced several software and hardware upgrades. Importantly, as with previous test flights, Starship Flight 4 will not have to utilize a deorbit burn for re-entry—that ensures public safety while keeping the primary mission of a controlled re-entry.
The upcoming flight will move the vision of a rapidly reusable future, which is at the center of SpaceX's mission of building a fully reusable transport system capable of taking crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and other destinations.
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