{"id":1001072,"date":"2026-04-04T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001072"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:21:39","slug":"spacex-delays-next-starship-test-launch-by-a-month-musk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/spacex-delays-next-starship-test-launch-by-a-month-musk-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX delays next Starship test launch by a month, Musk says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the company&#8217;s next Starship test flight will take place in May and not April as originally scheduled. <\/p>\n<p>Musk posted on social media platform \u200cX that \u2060the \u2060next flight of Starship&#8217;s V3 vehicle was four \u200bto six weeks away, or in the first two \u200bweeks of May. Earlier, he said the first flight would take place in \u200bApril. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s debut of the V3 \u2060Starship iteration \u200chas been delayed for \u200bmonths as \u200bthe company has packed dozens \u2060of upgrades into the vehicle to make \u200bit more reliable and suitable \u200bfor NASA missions like landing on the moon under the Artemis program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the company&#8217;s next Starship test flight will take place in May and not April as originally scheduled. Musk posted on social media platform \u200cX that \u2060the \u2060next flight of Starship&#8217;s V3 vehicle was four \u200bto six weeks away, or in the first two \u200bweeks of May. Earlier, he said the first flight would take place in \u200bApril. SpaceX&#8217;s debut of the V3 \u2060Starship iteration \u200chas been delayed for \u200bmonths as \u200bthe company has packed dozens \u2060of upgrades into the vehicle to make \u200bit more reliable and suitable \u200bfor NASA missions like landing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}