Published Apr 4th, 2023 8:17PM EDT Image: Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The highly anticipated inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket could be much closer than previously expected. We’ve known that Elon Musk’s space-based company hoped to launch Starship in the third week of April. However, new reports indicate it could happen as early as next week. There is considerable excitement for space fans and NASA alike, as the U.S. space agency hopes to use Starship’s rocket for the lunar lander planned for future Artemis missions. Musk recently advised that he hoped SpaceX would see an inaugural Starship launch as soon as the third week of April. However, new reports of SpaceX moving Starship to its launch pad, as well as reports that navigational warnings for April 6 to April 12 could indicate an earlier launch date. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket heads for orbit after lifting off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center carrying the 26th batch of 60 satellites as part of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband internet network. Image source: ZUMAPRESS.com/MEGA In fact, it currently looks like Musk’s SpaceX could be trying for an April 10 date for the inaugural launch of the Starship rocket. Musk says he doesn’t expect the first launch to complete its journey around the Earth, citing a 50 percent chance it succeeds. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. Email: