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thanks to an elon musk video we finally
got a glimpse inside the spacex starship
it's like walking into the strangest
crane silo on the planet
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content elon musk is a man with a goal
apart from his demanding day job of
weaning humanity off gas-guzzling autos
he also intends to drag humankind to
mars
and he wants to do it the right way
to that aim musk has been working
feverishly on the starship a
groundbreaking interplanetary spaceship
launching and iterating new prototypes
at a breakneck pace
but how does it all operate and what
exactly is within that massive gleaming
cylinder that keeps collapsing
let's take a tentative step onto the
long-suffering boku-chika launch pad
today to look inside the starship
on tuesday musk tweeted inside starship
cargo bay with a video of the starship
header tanks are positioned in the tip
of the nose cone to help offset the
weight of the engine at the back in a
retic q a in 2016 musk explained the
purpose of the spherical tanks saying
they hold the landing propellant and are
separated for better insulation we all
have largely been marveling at the
ship's gleaming exterior up to this
point then on saturday at spacex's boko
chica texas musk touted the stainless
steel spacecraft claiming that the
latest version of the rocket could reach
orbit in 6 months
musk eventually gave us a look inside
spacex's new spaceship only days after
revealing the gleaming silver exterior
the interior footage provides us a clear
idea of the prototype's huge size so
welcome to the starship orbital
prototype today elon musk the founder of
spacex will be your personal tour guide
today we get a good look inside the
massive new spacecraft that encapsulates
musk's ambitions to one day send people
to mars
the spacex ceo and founder gave us a
design update on starship and super
heavy the reusable spacecraft and rocket
that the company is developing to help
humanity colonize mars on september 28
that was a saturday night however what
exactly is starship
the bfr big falcon rocket and its
intelligent transport system or the
previous names for the vessel we now
call starship
along with the name change spacex
reiterated its strategy for moving all
of its activities to the starship
platform eventually a starship is a
super heavy lift rocket that can
transport enormous cargos to space at
its most basic level spacex's starship
is a next generation spacecraft that
will also transport people and goods to
earth orbit the moon and eventually mars
in recent months a prior star hopper
test version managed some brief jumps
this revolutionary starship is designed
to take you to new heights
the starship concept photos portrayed a
smooth stainless steel exterior
while this one had visible welding seams
the starship is the second stage of a
two-stage vehicle designed to accomplish
this
the starship is the most important part
with all the cargo and crew inside but
it's stacked on the super heavy first
stage in summer 2021 spacex stacked the
two stages for the first time
according to spacex super heavy is
required to get the spacecraft out of
earth's gravitational well with enough
fuel to reach its destination
because of the lower gravity the
starship can then travel to its
destination such as mars and then launch
itself back into space without using the
super heavy
the starship is fully reusable but the
super heavy component is still up for
debate
although spacex has gotten quite good at
landing falcon 9 boosters this rocket is
massive in comparison
elon musk at one point stated that the
company wants to use a launch tower to
catch super heavy but that doesn't sound
easy even for the company that developed
the falcon 9. just recently musk gave
his speech in front of the starship mk-1
the first full-scale prototype of the
100 passenger spacecraft which had just
been assembled out of stainless steel
while giving his speech he also shared a
10 second video on twitter showcasing
the spacecraft's massive cargo bay which
measures 30 feet 9 meters wide about
half an hour later in yet another tweet
he added that the exhibition version
will be much more polished than the
prototype but it will still be a lot of
fun to see the mk1 is equipped with
three raptor engines from spacex's next
generation six raptors will be on the
final starship and the super heavy will
have room for 37 of them
according to musk at least 31 of those
spots will almost certainly be filled on
each launch of the massive launcher if
everything goes according to plan the
mk1 will fly for the first time soon
according to musk spacex plans to launch
the prototype on an unmanned 12 mile
high 20 kilometer flight into the skies
above its south texas plant in the next
month or two
if development work goes well a starship
prototype might reach orbit in six
months he predicted on saturday night he
stated that the milestone flight will
most likely be accomplished by a future
edition of the spacecraft maybe mk4 or
mk5
we might not really have to wait long
for commercial activities to commence
after that
according to spacex executives starship
and super heavy should have begun
launching communication satellites as
early as this year and the business is
working on a crude mission with a 2023
launch date
around the moon voyage booked by
japanese billionaire yusuku maizawa who
has said he hopes to take a few artists
with him
musk's ambitious timetable for reaching
orbit may not pan out
major space projects are notorious for
being delayed but it would be worth the
wait to watch this gleaming beast ascend
to the skies
delays have been a feature of the
starship project as well as elon musk's
aspiration for mars for years
musk was asked when he thought spacex
would first land a human on mars in an
addition of the lex friedman podcast
which was also released tuesday
best case is roughly 5 years
worst scenario is about 10 years musk
said after a 20 to 25 second pause
musk had wanted to land humans on mars
by 2024 and as recently as december 2020
he stated that he was very sure that he
would be able to do so by 2026. now it
appears that trust is eroding owing in
part to issues musk has raised with
spacex employees about the need to ramp
up production of the next generation
raptor engines used by starship elon has
made a number of predictions regarding
mars including the possibility of
establishing a human colony before the
end of this decade
musk envisions a fleet of over 100
starships gathering in earth's orbit
every 26 months to depart in mass for
mars when the planet is closest to earth
each one is said to be capable of
transporting 100 people
even with spacex's boku-chika facility's
high speed of development
that appears unlikely to happen anytime
several low altitude tests as well as
two high altitude flights have been
accomplished by starship
one of the two however had an engine
failure and crashed into the ground all
of this is sans the super heavy stage
which is required for any mission
planned by starship while spacex has
successfully piled starship with the
super heavy boosters as of september
2021 the latter has yet to fly
according to spacex's most recent
predictions the earliest possible
journey to mars without a crew would be
in 2024 which is around the same time
that the artemis hls will be complete
it's not strange that mars would take a
back seat to more pressing worries
after all the health repercussions of a
mars expedition are yet unknown but
colonization does not appear to be a
viable option
there you have it
what's inside the spacex starship will
this enormous space machine receive on
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