— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2023 If it all comes together in time, SpaceX could finally see its Starship rocket fly for the first time. The company has been eagerly awaiting the rocket’s inaugural flight for nearly two years, conducting a series of limited static fire tests of the booster’s engines. In February, the company performed the first full-scale static fire test of the Starship system, which SpaceX officials declared as the “last box to check” before the rocket’s first orbital launch attempt. During its orbital test flight, the rocket will blast off and the upper stage will perform less than a full orbit around Earth before reentering the atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. If it is successful, SpaceX is hoping to put its megarocket to work, delivering its next-generation Starlink satellites to orbit. SpaceX also has a $2.89 billion contract with NASA; the plan is to use Starship to land humans on the Moon by late 2025 as part of the space agency’s Artemis 3 mission. It’s true Musk has thrown out launch dates for Starship’s test flight before that never materialized, but SpaceX seems to have most of the requirements in order this time around—save for that coveted launch license. For more spaceflight in your life, follow us on Twitter and bookmark Gizmodo’s dedicated Spaceflight page.