SpaceX announced that it intends to conduct the first orbital test flight on Monday for its giant rocket, "Starship", with two full layers, after obtaining approval from the US Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority.

SpaceX has been working for years on manufacturing this 120-meter-long rocket, which will be used for trips to distant space, that is, to the moon and Mars.

The company is scheduled to launch the rocket from the "Starbase" space base in the far south of the US state of Texas.

And “SpaceX” stated on Friday that the two-and-a-half-hour missile take-off window opens at seven in the morning Monday local time (12 noon GMT), while alternative reserve dates were set during weekdays.

No test flight of the full-layered missile has yet been conducted, including the first, which bears the name "Super Heavy".

The flights conducted so far have been limited to the "Starship" vehicle, which is the second layer of the rocket, as it carried out suborbital test flights (up to a height of about ten kilometers), many of which ended in huge explosions.

The US space agency (NASA) has chosen the Starship vehicle to transport its astronauts to the moon during the "Artemis 3" mission, which is officially scheduled to be launched in 2025.

On Friday, the US Civil Aviation Authority granted Starship a license to fly, "valid for five years."

The "Super Heavy" and "Starship" missile layers are supposed to return to Earth in the future after its flights, allowing it to be fully reused, but they will not be recovered after this first test flight, but rather they are scheduled to crash into the ocean.

Elon Musk, through the strategy of producing an entire reusable rocket, aims to provide a low price, so that the cost of each vehicle flight is less than ten million dollars, as previously confirmed.

Last February, SpaceX passed an important stage in the development of its giant rocket by completing, at its base in Boca Chica, in the far south of Texas, a remarkable experiment on the ground of the thirty-three "Raptor" engines in the first layer of the rocket.

In all, 31 of the 33 engines managed to start for a few seconds, "the largest number of simultaneous rocket engine starts in history," according to SpaceX.

And the new giant "NASA" missile, the 98-meter "SLS", has become the most powerful missile in service in the world after its first flight as part of the "Artemis 1" mission to the moon, but "Starship" may take this designation from it next week.