星舰第15次飞行规划不早于10月19日 SpaceX将首度尝试用发射塔捕获飞船本体
德克萨斯州星舰基地——SpaceX的星舰第14次试飞于9月28日完成：星舰首度进入地球轨道，部署了首批26颗星链V3卫星，数小时后在太平洋溅落。
据FOX Weather报道，第15次飞行可能迎来更大一步：SpaceX预计将首度尝试用发射塔上的巨型机械臂——该公司称之为「筷子」——捕获返回的星舰飞船本体。SpaceX此前已多次成功捕获超重型助推器，但从未以此方式回收过星舰上面级；若捕获成功，将是该公司「同一枚火箭快速重复使用」目标的关键一步。SpaceX尚未公布第15次飞行的确切日期与完整任务剖面，目前的规划指向不早于10月19日。
据Tech Insider 10月16日报道，SpaceX已确认发射顺序：先在德州星舰基地至少再飞一次星舰，之后才让星舰转往佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心39A发射台首秀；39A发射台已由施工阶段转入验收测试阶段。SpaceX星舰基地负责人凯西·卢德斯（Kathy Lueders）表示：「发射星舰所需的结构与系统的初步建设，我们基本上已经完成，正开始进入启用前的验收测试与运行测试。」另据航天媒体Behind The Black依据美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）公布信息所作报道，10月30日还暂列一次自肯尼迪航天中心发射的星舰任务、编号为「星链30-1」，定位为运营性发射。
星舰的改进型将作为美国国家航空航天局（NASA）阿尔忒弥斯计划的载人着陆系统，把宇航员从月球轨道送往月球表面并返回。
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Starship Flight 15 Planned No Earlier Than Oct. 19, With First Attempt to Catch the Ship at the Launch Tower
Starbase, Texas — SpaceX's 14th Starship test flight was completed on September 28: the vehicle reached Earth orbit for the first time, deployed the first 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean several hours later.
According to FOX Weather, the 15th flight could mark an even bigger step: SpaceX is expected to attempt, for the first time, to catch the returning Starship spacecraft itself with the giant mechanical arms — which the company calls "chopsticks" — on the launch tower. SpaceX has successfully caught Super Heavy boosters before, but has never recovered the Starship upper stage this way; a successful catch would be a major leap toward the company's goal of rapidly reflying the same vehicles. SpaceX has not announced an official launch date or confirmed the full mission profile, though planning currently points to no earlier than October 19.
According to an October 16 report by Tech Insider, SpaceX has confirmed the sequence: at least one more Starship test flight from Starbase, Texas, comes first, before the rocket's debut from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; the Florida pad has moved out of construction and into acceptance testing. Kathy Lueders, SpaceX's Starbase chief, said the company has "essentially done a lot of the initial build of the structures and the systems needed for launching Starship" and is "beginning to step into the sort of acceptance testing and operational testing prior to activation." Separately, the space-news site Behind The Black, citing FAA announcements, reported that a further
Starship launch from Kennedy Space Center is tentatively scheduled for October 30, labeled Starlink 30-1 and described as an operational flight.
A modified version of Starship will serve as the Human Landing System for NASA's Artemis program, ferrying astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon's surface and back.
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图片来源：图：星舰从德州星舰基地升空（第11次飞行试飞，资料图）。照片：Shujianyang，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。File photo: Starship lifts off from Starbase, Texas, during Flight Test 11. Photo by Shujianyang, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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