NASA officially revealed New Starship's first orbital flight timeline...but can't launch before SLS

NASA officially revealed New Starship's first orbital flight timeline...but can't launch before SLS

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After announcing its next SLS launch attempt on schedule for November, NASA just officially put SpaceX behind. The agency declared the first Starship orbital launch as soon as December while SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said before that Starship will also “highly likely” lift off in November 2022.
Is this an implicit arrangement for SpaceX?
How does Nasa argue this?
Find out everything about this in today's episode of Alpha Tech:

NASA expects SpaceX to be ready to attempt the first orbital flight of its Starship vehicle, an essential element in the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plans, as soon as early December, pending tests and regulatory approvals.

Speaking to the NASA Advisory Council’s Human Exploration and Operations Committee Oc. 31, Mark Kirasich, deputy associate administrator for Artemis Campaign Development at NASA, said the agency’s understanding of progress on testing of the Starship vehicle, including its Super Heavy booster, supported an orbital launch attempt late this year.

“Right now, the schedule would lead to an early December test flight,” he said. The profile for that test flight would be the same as the company previously detailed in regulatory filings, with the Super Heavy booster and Starship lifting off from the Boca Chica, Texas, test site. Starship would go into orbit but almost immediately reenter, splashing down near Hawaii after completing less than one orbit.
However, NASA's Mark Kirasich said he does not believe SpaceX will attempt to recover the Super Heavy first stage on that test flight.
NASA officially revealed New Starship's first orbital flight timeline...but can't launch before SLS