There are some claims that surface to air missiles can shoot down SpaceX Starships when the US military starts using them in a few years for cargo missions. The people who make these claims have not looked at the specifications of surface to air missiles. A SpaceX Starship will be much harder to shootdown than …
Yesterday, Elon tweeted that the SpaceX Starship launch is in about 3 weeks. Starship were meant to fly and our next one launches in about 3 weeks, but I recommend waiting for a few more test flights before hopping on board @NICKIMINAJ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2024 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
PayloadSpace estimates the costs of SpaceX Starship now and in a few years. Their estimate is a $90 million build cost now and a future build cost of $20 million. SpaceX would likely charge customers twice those amounts. Those are estimates of internal costs. In a cost per kilogram of payload basis, a single use …
Joe Tegtmeyer spoke with Ellie in space about the SpaceX factory ramp. Joe has been a professional large project manager who has managed detailed management of large projects. He has been closely monitoring the construction and expansion of the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin. Joe gives his projection of how he expects the SpaceX Starfactory to …
SpaceX is expanding the Starship Factory to increase production to one Starship every 72 hours. This would mean production would increase to over 100 per year. Elon has discussed the need to increase Starship production to over one per day. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
People believe that exotic new propulsion systems are needed to reduce the one way trip times from Earth to Mars from 180-270 days down to 45 days each way. The slower mission times are for chemical rockets where we barely get out of Earth orbit with a small rocket engine. SpaceX Starship can refuel after …
Jessica Jensen, vice president of customer operations and integration at SpaceX, said securing an updated Federal Aviation Administration launch license was the key factor driving the schedule for the third Starship test flight. The third flight should be sometime in February 2024. “From a hardware readiness perspective, we are targeting to be ready in January,” …
Elon Musk will provide a 2024 Starship Update on January 11. He will conduct a SpaceX company talk including a Starship update next Thursday. There could be Starship IFT-2’s post-flight analysis, plans for IFT-3 and beyond, and updates on Starship HLS milestones. There will also probably be Starlink targets. Source pic.twitter.com/8WvUJdW8lp — Toby Li (@tobyliiiiiiiiii) …
SpaceX photos from Flight 3 Starship six-engine static fire. There will be a lot of Starship launches in 2024 as SpaceX will be increasing the testing to meet the schedule for the NASA Artemis return to the moon. There needs to be refueling and fuel storage tests. Eight to twenty Starship orbital launches will be …
Lab Padre captured the successful SpaceX Starship static fire. SpaceX can now stack the Starship onto the Super Heavy booster to prepare for the third orbital Starship launch within 9-26 days. The stack Starship and Booster would then have booster engine tests. "SpaceX Ship 28 Soars in Suborbital Pad B Static Fire Test" The SpaceX …
Kathy Lueders , SpaceX Starbase General Manager, indicated the third SpaceX Starship orbital launch should be in Q1 2024. This will most likely be February or March. However, the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy could be on the pad for tests by the end of this year. Kathy Lueders confirmed a second tower at Starbase. …