FAA Clears SpaceX For Starship Integrated Flight Test 4

Irene Klotz June 04, 2024
SpaceX Starship Super Heavy
Credit: SpaceX
The FAA on June 4 cleared SpaceX to proceed with the fourth Integrated Flight Test (IFT-4) of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, with the launch targeted for June 6. “The main goal of this mission is to get much deeper into the atmosphere during reentry, ideally...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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