SpaceX targets February for third Starship test flight
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SpaceX expects to conduct the third integrated test flight of its Starship vehicle in February as it works to demonstrate landing humans on the moon.

"Jensen described an iterative process of flight and ground tests. “That will wind up determining how many missions we need,” she said.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson then stepped in. “The question was, how many fuel transfers?”

“I will say it will roughly be ten-ish,” Jensen responded. “It could be lower, depending on how well the first flight tests go, or it could be a little bit higher.”"

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DoD US Department of Defense
    EUS Exploration Upper Stage
    HLS Human Landing System (Artemis)
    SLS Space Launch System heavy-lift
    Jargon Definition
    Starlink SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation

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