while one is exceeding expectations the other is consistently falling short while the other has
been severely beaten down by the market one is raising money at an Ever Rising valuation while
the other is under Fire for its lack of succession planning the first has a highly capable number two
executive keeping it on pace so how will SpaceX gear up for a breakthrough year in 2023 let's
find out hello everyone welcome back to Elon Musk Evolution where we bring you the most recent news
about Elon Musk and his multi-billion dollar companies space news and the latest science
and technology but before we begin make sure you subscribe to our Channel and click the Bell icon
so you don't miss any of our amazing videos Elon Musk is the Chief Executive Officer of both space
exploration Technologies and Tesla however SpaceX is thriving whereas Tesla has shriveled since the
CEO started his takeover of Twitter some even contend that this is due to rather than a result
of its CEO playing a less active role with a goal of up to 100 flights SpaceX is getting ready for a
landmark year compared to the every six days Pace the corporation achieved in 2022 this rate of one
every three and a half days is faster it will undertake the first ever commercial spacewalk
as early as march with astronauts dangling from a dragon craft some 700 kilometers above Earth and
it will soon attempt to enter orbit for the first time using what it claims is the most powerful
rocket ever Starship the launch vehicle meant to one day reach the moon and Mars the privately held
business which was reportedly valued at about 140 billion dollars has been preparing for all of this
activity with its less visible CEO giving more authority to Gwen Shotwell president and Chief
Operating Officer of SpaceX according to current and former employees who asked to remain anonymous
since concluding his purchase of Twitter in late October musk has been preoccupied with
resolving engineering and operational problems at the San francisco-based social media company
which has reduced his involvement in day-to-day matters at SpaceX according to many musk played a
significantly larger role in establishing the company's long-term strategy which included
its Mission to Mars the workflow for Falcon 9 launches for example has become pretty consistent
over the years so they claim the CEO's constant attention is not required they also claim that
when musk's attention is diverted there is some semblance of calm former employees claim that
mosque has injected himself into projects and requested revisions for often arbitrary reasons
as a result of his intense concentration on day-to-day business operations for example
current and former employees cite instances in which musk criticized gear for having too many
tubes connectors or wires or for generally not adhering to his chosen design style he has pushed
for system redesign and simplification which is forced staff to spend time explaining why
particular components are necessary or prompted extensive work that may take weeks to complete
when components that were initially discarded are ultimately required for the final design that
effort May occasionally have to be reversed when musk shifts his attention to SpaceX the company
according to a former employee May occasionally experience hiring freezes because he will want
final say on all new hires for instance a number of former employees claim that musk decided the
company needed to reduce production at the end of 2021 because there were too many people in
the past when he demanded that recruiting managers demonstrate an applicant's exceptionality managers
tried a variety of strategies including requesting SAT scores from candidates
as musk's permission can be elusive during these times hiring decisions are rarely made
another former employee recalled a tense weekend meeting that took place before SpaceX made its
first human passenger flight at the time the business was secretly competing with Boeing to
be the first to transport NASA astronauts to the space station musk invited the crew building crew
Dragon spacex's passenger spacecraft to come in for a crucial meeting early the following morning
by email one Friday evening musk swiftly informed the team that the launch timing couldn't slip and
that they would all need to put in their all to maintain the schedule when he arrived later than
expected there were too many employees working on the program he also complained to the team
the crew members were focused on carrying out the mission as safely as possible when the
brief dialogue shook them the mission some current workers expressed satisfaction at
musk's recent focus on Twitter in light of this background the majority of spacex's Executives
answered a Shotwell while the CEO is away the COO and NASA administrator Bill Nelson had a
conversation in December regarding whether musk's purchase of Twitter might interfere with spacex's
operations Nelson remarked she reassured me that it would not divert their focus from their purpose
in Boca Chica Texas SpaceX has been developing Starship which is part of the quest to make
humans multi-planetary according to several employees musk was frequently present at spacex's
star-based production site in Boca Chica during the early stages of the Starship development
personally supervising timelines and demanding design modifications at times now John Cosa
who was in charge of spacex's internet from Space Project Starling has assumed that position and is
in control of the program timetable and Hardware development the Airfield next to Starbase hasn't
seen musk's private plane since October 14 or roughly two weeks before he finalized the Twitter
deal a greater emphasis on launch dependability and more risk reduction testing have corresponded
according to present staff with John kosa's Assumption of the Starship responsibilities
the initial years of the vehicle's development involved greater danger with SpaceX conducting
many sub-orbital test flights every few months some of which ended in Crash Landings that
scattered debris across surrounding Wetlands musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on
the same day that the information published a story about a testing accident at Starbase two
weeks prior that might have wounded approximately two dozen crew members and raised questions about
hurrying work and taking shortcuts according to the publication there hasn't been a test
launch by SpaceX since a Starship flight in May 2021 that ended with a successful Landing the
first attempt at an orbital launch by Starship a significant Milestone that has been continually
postponed will be the next significant Mission though his launch date estimates are frequently
aspirational musk has stated that this may happen as soon as February or March
starship's future dependability will be crucial since it will be used extensively in NASA's effort
to send people back to the moon for the first time in 50 years for Missions set to launch
as early as 2025 NASA has chosen the vehicle to transport astronauts to and from the lunar surface
the rocket will be used to launch future starlink Broadband satellites which is just one of spacex's
ambitious plans for it SpaceX can go forward quickly even without its founder present because
of the strategically placed Executives behind musk they are ultimately in charge of carrying
out his vision though it will only be a matter of time before he returns we anticipate a total
of five Falcon heavy flights in 2023 which would be a record for SpaceX until Starship is online
the former king of launchers who was deposed by NASA's space launch system Remains the most
powerful commercial rocket on the market when it was originally launched in 2018 Elon musk's Tesla
Roadster was placed in orbit around the Sun not far from Mars's orbit as a demonstration of what
it was capable of only five launches have occurred since with the latest taking place in January 2023
late last year SpaceX started launching three missions on Falcon Heavies after
being chosen for 40 percent of the space Force's National Security space launch Phase 2 contract
a further nssl mission is planned for April while NASA ViaSat and EcoStar
will each launch three additional commercially acquired heavy Rockets to round out the year
the number of crude missions made by SpaceX could break the previous record SpaceX flew three crude
missions on their Falcon 9 rocket with crew Dragon spacecraft in 2021 and 2020. two of which were for
NASA and one for a private company with likely four but possibly even five or six crude flights
this year SpaceX could surpass that Mark NASA Crews 6 and 7 will make up two of those voyages as
crew rotations to the International Space Station another is Polaris Dawn which will showcase
spacex's first spacewalk and be the first mission of the Polaris program no sooner than March 2023
is the projected launch date axi emissions will be the determining factor in how large
this new record would be Axiom 1 was launched with four commercial astronauts last year to
conduct research on the ISS alongside government astronauts SpaceX could launch three axiomissions
in 2023 for Axiom 2 however the only information we are aware of is the crew and the launched eight
Peggy Whitson a former NASA Astronaut John schoffner a former racing car driver and two
unidentified crew members from Saudi Arabia are scheduled to fly on Axiom 2 no earlier than May
on the other hand let's check what are the major space missions to keep an eye out for in
2023 this year we'll see a number of significant space missions including those that will explore
the solar system observe the universe and fly with crews in 2023 several significant space flight and
exploration missions will launch with one Mission coming back to Earth Jupiter icy moons Explorer
the Jupiter exploration Rover is without a doubt the star of the three new explorers
entering the solar system in 2023 exploring icy moons juice the European Space Agency will be
sending a spacecraft beyond the asteroid belt for the first time and it is headed
for the three largest Galilean moons of Jupiter Europa Callisto and ganamidi all three of them
may contain Subterranean oceans and Juice will be looking for any during its two flybys of the Moon
water plumes have even been observed erupting high above Europa the Jupiter's moon Callisto
which has the Solar System's most heavily cratered surface and is thought to be an ancient remnant of
the Solar System's origin will also receive 12 passes from the spacecraft the largest moon in
the solar system ganymedi is Juice's main focus from the moon's enigmatic magnetic field to its
tenuous atmosphere juice will examine every facet of its geology osiris-rex and psyche
when osiris-rex Returns on September 24 with its payload of asteroid dust from asteroid
bennu it appears to be the beginning of the Autumn of asteroids later in the year the
NASA spacecraft psyche will launch in October for The Identical 226 kilometer wide asteroid
Peregrine and Luna 25 head to the Moon as numerous Landers supported by NASA's
commercial lunar payload Services Program get ready for their debut missions 2023 will also see
a continuation of the trend of revived interest in the lunar surface in order to enable future
human Landings clps was developed as an offshoot of the Artemis program both of these lunar Rovers
will carry a variety of NASA experiments to explore the lunar surface additionally they
will transport payloads from corporate clients such as the four-legged azagumo Rover from the
British Ukrainian firm space bit Ross Cosmos is Luna 25 is also headed for the South Pole with
the intention of analyzing the makeup of the lunar soil there 47 years after the Russian space agency
launched its final lunar lander it is scheduled to launch in July and that ends today's episode
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