马斯克：星舰第15次试飞约在感恩节前 将首次尝试用发射塔回收飞船
SpaceX 创始人马斯克近日表示，星舰（Starship）第15次试飞大约在四到六周后、感恩节前不久进行，届时将首次尝试用发射塔回收飞船本体。SpaceX 尚未公布正式日期。据路透社报道，星舰已在9月28日的第14次试飞中首次进入轨道，并完成六圈绕地飞行与卫星释放，是该项目的重要里程碑。
回收方面，星舰飞船 Ship 40 近期已被运回 Starbase。SpaceX 称其为「第一艘返回发射场的星舰」：它于7月24日执行第13次试飞后在印度洋溅落并大体保持完整，被拖至 Christmas Island 取下隔热瓦样本，10月7日经 Forte 号运输船抵达 Port of Brownsville，现已竖立在 Starbase 的 Megabay 内，与另外三艘星舰并列，将为 flown 隔热系统、Raptor 发动机与航电设备提供首批实飞数据。
马斯克10月10日在德克萨斯州公司活动上阐述了下一次飞行的回收尝试计划；多家航天媒体此前援引空管简报称，第15次试飞原以10月19日为暂定「不早于」日期，现已顺延。
星舰是美国国家航空航天局（NASA）Artemis 载人登月计划选定的月球着陆系统，其轨道可靠性直接关系登月时间表。
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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
Musk: Starship Flight 15 Is Targeted a Little Before Thanksgiving and Will Try to Catch the Ship
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said Starship's 15th flight is about four to six weeks away, "a little bit before Thanksgiving" by his estimate, and that it will attempt to catch the ship itself with the launch tower. SpaceX has not announced a firm date. According to Reuters, Starship reached orbit for the first time on its 14th flight on September 28, completing six Earth orbits and a satellite deployment in a major program milestone.
On recovery, the Starship vehicle Ship 40 has now returned to Starbase. SpaceX calls it "the first Starship to return to its launch site": it flew Flight 13 on July 24, stayed largely intact after splashing down in the Indian Ocean, was towed to Christmas Island where crews took heat-shield samples, and arrived at the Port of Brownsville aboard the transport ship Forte on October 7. It now stands upright in a Starbase Megabay beside three other Starships, set to provide first-of-its-kind data on a flown heat shield, Raptor engines and avionics.
Musk outlined the catch attempt for the next flight at a company event in Texas on October 10. Space media had earlier cited air-traffic planning material listing October 19 as a provisional no-earlier-than date for Flight 15, which has since slipped.
Starship is the human landing system NASA selected for its Artemis lunar missions, so its orbital reliability bears directly on the Moon timeline.
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图片来源：图：星舰发射升空。照片：Starship Link，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。/ Photo: A Starship vehicle lifts off. Photo by Starship Link, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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