Elon Musk
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Starship is now more than twice as powerful as the Saturn V Moon rocket and, in a year or so, it will be three times as powerful at 10,000 metric tons of thrust.
More importantly, it is designed to be fully reusable, burning ~80% liquid oxygen and ~20% liquid methane (very low cost propellant).
This enables cost per ton to orbital space to be ~10,000% lower than Saturn V.
Starship is the difference between being a multiplanet or single planet civilization.
Building a new world on Mars is now possible.
MUSKOSOPHY@muskosophy· 7. Nov. 2024Elon Musk envisioned what would become Starship from the very beginning of SpaceX. Here’s what he said in 2003:
“Our eventual upgrade path is to build the successor to Saturn V.
A super-heavy lift vehicle that could be used for setting up a moon base or doing a Mars mission.
14:40 · 7. November 2024 · 40,9 Mio. Aufrufe
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