This dramatic render shows the starship, as it was known BFR at the time this picture was published, In September 2018, with an explosion from a cloudy earth. SpaceX says the ship and rocket have been made fully reusable and will be able to serve Earth orbits of the Moon and Mars.
SpaceX
The latest prototype of Elon Musk’s starship prototype has only been found at 500 feet (1 meters0 meters) high, but the CEO of SpaceX said on Monday that his rocket company could start construction on a booster prototype this week to connect with Starship.
“It would be great,” Musk said in a keynote address at the Virtual Human to Mars Summit.
SpaceX has a platform to take humans to the moon, Mars and beyond, but to reach those places, Starship plans to pair it with a powerful first-stage booster called Super Heavy. So far we have only seen early prototypes of the starship making short test flights or “hops”.
See this:
The SpaceX Starship prototype takes the first ‘hop’
1:01
Musk added that Super Heavy may have fewer engines than originally planned – probably 28 Raptor engines instead of 31 31.
“There are still a lot of engines. We will focus on those engines.”
He muzzled that the raptor would eventually be able to gain 200 times his own weight.
While we can see that the Starship prototype fly is more than just a hop, Musk said “maybe next year” and expectations are about to drop a bit.
“People may not work at first,” he said. “These are uncontrollable territories. No one has ever built a fully reusable orbital rocket … and then Saturn V (the astronaut on the moon that rocket) doubled in size was something that is completely reusable … that It’s really something else, it’s deep. It’s the gateway to the galaxy, or at least the solar system. ”
