KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — In SpaceX’s first major update on its Starship spacecraft in nearly two years, Elon Musk remains confident the spacecraft will get to orbit later this year.

The SpaceX founder and CEO also talked about his company’s plans on Florida’s Space Coast.

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Starship will eventually be lifting off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Musk took center stage Thursday night from his company’s Boca Chica, Texas, Starbase for an update on the development of its reusable Starship.

“I feel at this point highly confident that it will get to orbit this year,” Musk said.

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Starship has had a number of flight tests, but the spacecraft, designed to carry humans to the moon and eventually Mars, has yet to reach orbit.

If the Federal Aviation Administration clears the way, the company’s first orbital flight test will lift off from Texas.

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“Because we had a lot of launches going out of the Cape, we didn’t want to disrupt the Cape activity, the operational launches with sort of the advanced R&D of Starship,” Musk said.

However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t some significant activity already happening in Florida.

“We are building a launch site, a Starship launch tower at 39A at Cape Kennedy,” Musk said. “We are also building a Starship production facility at the Cape as well.”

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If the company runs into a roadblock on its first orbital flight test in Texas this year, SpaceX could launch from the Cape.

“So, I guess our worst-case scenario is that we’d be delayed for six to eight months to build up the Cape launch tower, and launch from there,” Musk said.

However, regardless of those launchpad modifications, the Starship are coming.

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