SpaceX计划于周一清晨发射其庞大的星舰火箭，力争首次将该航天器送入轨道。
SpaceX plans to launch its massive Starship rocket early Monday in an effort to reach orbit with the spacecraft for the first time.
根据SpaceX官网信息，75分钟的发射窗口于美国东部时间上午8点15分（当地时间上午7点15分）开始，发射地点位于得克萨斯州的星基地。
According to SpaceX's website the 75-minute launch window begins at 8:15 a.m. ET, or 7:15 a.m. local time, from the company town of Starbase, Texas.
美国联邦航空管理局通过邮件告知CNBC，该局已于9月26日颁发了“SpaceX星舰超重型火箭第14次飞行及再入操作的许可证”。在此次星舰第14次试飞中，埃隆·马斯克旗下的航空航天与国防公司还计划部署26颗新型星链V3卫星。
The Federal Aviation Administration told CNBC by email that it issued a "license authorization for the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Flight 14 launch and reentry operations" on Sept. 26. With the 14th test flight of Starship, Elon Musk's aerospace and defense company also plans to deploy 26 of its new Starlink V3 satellites.
星舰对SpaceX的扩张计划至关重要。该公司正依靠这款巨型火箭来扩大其星链或连接业务，该业务在第二季度是其规模最大且唯一盈利的板块。目前，SpaceX在轨运行约11,000颗活跃卫星，而竞争对手Eutelsat OneWeb仅有约650颗。
Starship is critical to SpaceX's expansion plans. The company is counting on the giant rocket to scale its Starlink or Connectivity, business, which was its largest and only profitable segment as of the second quarter. SpaceX operates around 11,000 active satellites in orbit today, compared to roughly 650 for competitor Eutelsat OneWeb.
在8月的财报电话会议上，马斯克表示：“星链在未来某个时刻提供全球大部分互联网服务并非不可能，至少在我们获准运营的国家，这涵盖了绝大多数国家。”SpaceX于6月上市，创下史上最大规模IPO纪录，目前估值约为2万亿美元。
On SpaceX's earnings call in August, Musk said, "It's not out of the question that at some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world's internet, at least in countries where we're allowed to operate, which is the vast majority of countries." SpaceX went public in June in the largest IPO on record and is now valued at about $2 trillion.
SpaceX设计其星舰超重型火箭及助推器以实现完全可重复使用，并以比任何先前航天器更低的成本将更多货物送入轨道。此前13次试飞均未以进入轨道为目标，但在第14次飞行中，SpaceX希望星舰能环绕地球飞行。
SpaceX has designed its Starship Super Heavy rocket and booster to be fully reusable, and to lift more cargo for less cost into orbit than any prior spacecraft. None of the 13 earlier test flights have been intended to make it into orbit, but with the 14th flight, SpaceX is hoping Starship will circle the planet.
该公司正在为明年NASA的一次重大试飞做准备，并计划利用该火箭将美国宇航员送回月球表面。
The company is preparing Starship for a major NASA test flight next year, and intends to use the rocket to bring U.S. astronauts back to the moon's surface.
SpaceX首席运营官格温·肖特韦尔在本月初的All-In峰会上表示，该公司还计划利用星舰在太空部署“超级计算”，并于2027年将“人工智能计算卫星”送入轨道。
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell said during the All-In Summit earlier this month that the company also plans to use Starship to put "supercompute in space," launching "AI compute satellites" into orbit in 2027.
该公司在华盛顿州雷德蒙德的SpaceX工厂生产的新型v3卫星配备了太阳能电池阵列，其发电量是前几代产品的两倍。这些卫星体积更大，设计功率也更强，能够以比早期版本更快的速度向星链用户传输数据。
The company's new v3 satellites which are produced at a SpaceX facility in Redmond, Washington, are equipped with solar arrays that generate twice as much power as prior generations. They are also larger, and designed to be more powerful, transmitting data more rapidly than earlier versions to Starlinkrs.
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