Elon Musk delivers SpaceX update, talks Starship progress and more!
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2024
- SpaceX's Elon Musk talks about the state of the private spaceflight company during a recent address at Starbase in Texas. SpaceX completed a record 96 missions to space in 2023.
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For me, the goal is almost arbitrary. What Elon is doing is driving humanity forwards, but in such a narrow pathway it really doesn't matter if he doesn't succeed, or if the consequences of success are not good - the rest of us get to benefit from all of the spin offs like high speed electric motors, better combustion modelling, stainless steel fabrication technology, iterative manufacturing, etc. Don't get me wrong, seeing people thriving on Mars would be fantastic, but instead of talking about the ridiculousness of that scenario, let the man strive for _something_ and we'll all be the better for it.
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@@Alexitae-sk4zttacos
I can't say the same for the other billionaires who likes to show off their cars more than anything.
Very accurate analyse !!
nothing goes to mars.. get off the fantasy world
I had the pleasure of watching a string of Starlink satellites deploy last year. It's a tiny slice of what Space-X has accomplished, but even that was awesome!
Congratulations SpaceX! You all are nuts and I love you for it!
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Story Of Elon Musk |
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Hola !! Decían lo mismo de Galeno Galireo ..q estaba loco al pensar q la tierra giraba alrededor del sol ❤😂
It's better to sacrifice hardware rather than sacrifice time because time is real currency 50:52
I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. I really like how Elon has taken the iterative design path used so successfully in software engineering and made it work (mostly) with large scale manufacturing. While I don't think that humanity is in danger from not enough time, each individual is and if they want to leave a legacy, a well thought out plan is a lot less interesting than a vision made real.
As a 64yr old who’s loved SciFi since Thunderbirds in 1965, through to Space 1999 (Moon base Alpha) then the books of ACC, it’s inspiring and heart warming to see these young people making this stuff actually happen and maybe in my lifetime. And as a life long engineer, it’s awe inspiring to see the sheer engineering challenges and milestones being overcome and met. Bravo 👏 SpaceX
i'm 70 and i'm disappointed that the promise of flying a hover car around on the moon hasn't happened, so i'm looking forward to the compensation being i do it on mars instead. david sinclair needs to pull his finger out though, i'm not getting any younger. btw i did special effects (20 or so shots) on thunderbirds the movie (with the late bill paxton) and got to chat with commander ryker a couple of times.
@@HarryNicNicholasno flying cars yet, but I did just 3d print a full size B1 battle droid from Star Wars in less than 10 days. I really think the next 6 years are going to be epic. All the best to you and yours to get to see that Mars mission! And RIP Bill, ID4 was my favorite move growing up.
Nothing is actually happening, lol. Just bombastic talk.
Humanity went to the moon before I was born and had never been back. Except for some billionaires who have been BSing about Mars for 15 years.
Reminds me so much of this particular inspirational speech a few years ago now. Such a similar vibe to it.
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well stated
Also, CONGRATULATIONS on SpaceX, project!! All love for you & team!! 🎉
✌️TEAM ,SPACEX✌️
It's crazy to see that the fire blast of the raptore engines is larger than the tower itself
It can’t be done oh really. Elon leads great teams. I saw the moon landing live on TV aged 9. I love to see us land on Mars before I die.
Me too! 🎉
moon missions are fake and were filmed in a studio on earth, no man can survive these extreme conditions
Fun Fact: We’re not going to have human civilization living on any planet other than Earth. 😃
We never went to the moon.
It will happen in 20 years or less, so just stay healthy and safe brother
The white nissan car in the back though 😂
@@oneaboveall1895 its Elon Musk so they should have Teslas in the background. 🤷♂️
Nothing wrong with nissan..
This isnt a promotional video… its to inform us about nasa
@@Jadex26 hey there what’s your snap or insta?
@@Jadex26 what’s your Snapchat or Instagram?
Probably a new or temp worker
I thought Elon was gonna break out in song and dance when the music started 😂
I use to live in cocoa and Titusville FL not far from Kennedy space center❤
I tried but was not able to get the link.
That said.. thank you for reaching out.
One of the most inspirational endeavours of our time. Thank you Elon & crew for pushing things forward!
🤢🤮
29:05 Elon meant to say 88Gbps to 165Gbps not Tbps. Would have been nice if was Tbps
Thanks for speaking for him.. he should hire you to keep him from saying stupid things like he usually does! Like when we were supposed to land on mars 2 years ago!
Congratulations SpaceX is soaring upwards to the Sky rocket! We Love You and the World forever for sustaining
the success
of the world Experiences of the Futuristic.
Thank you for this video 🙏😎👍✌️❤️ enjoyed it 👏👏👏👏🎉🎉💪
Thank You Elon for the excellent Ideas!!!!
Congratulations to the SpaceX family for accomplishing so much ! I believe that you are truly on an exceptional path to achieve even more this year . Thank you . May the dream be successful !
Insane to think Ive been watching starships' progress every day of every week since starhopper. I love it
Amazing music and Elon’s transparency and childlike excitement is heartwarming! 🙏 just brilliant
Will autonomous delivery vehicles and other autonomous machines be able to access starlink anywhere on the planet?
Sure why not? The goal of the tech is highspeed internet, anywhere on the planet, anytime. Couple that with a nifty GPS/autonomous software package and yeah - ADV's everywhere!
Absolutely mind blowing, the definition of people who get shit done. Hate or love Elon, he's one of the most inspiring people on the planet. His way of thinking is so relatable for me, I look around at people who are invested in celebrity magazines and feel deep sadness there aren't more of us who want to answer the big questions. The reason I work in sustainability is the Fermi Paradox. When you realise no civilisation has ever made it in the known universe, and you hear Brian Cox describe how unimaginably humongous it is, you realise there's a very good chance we could join the great darkness as if we never existed. Yes we have problems to fix on Earth, but I'm thankful that we are being given extra time by a mad genius like Elon to try to answer the questions that people like Roger Penrose describe.
The next advancement I'm interested in is what Einstein described as "his biggest blunder" which was a mechanism in his theory that allowed for anti gravity. We've recently had to put this back into the equations as we realised it does have to exist in the universe and so I wonder if we'll ever find a way to replicate it in a useful way.
other intelligences HAVE made it to the "known universe". They're here. Always have been. Go about your day
The solution to the Fermi Paradox: they are avoiding us. Similar to how we treat the natives on North Sentinel Island. They are much more primitive than we are, and they attack on site - we avoid them for their protection (disease) as much as our own. We are monkeys down here on Earth playing with nuclear weapons. They need to keep an eye on us now (UAP sightings dramatically increased after the development of the atomic bomb).
We kill each other over differences in our own skin color or idealogies. Non-human intelligences (NHI) are aware of this. How do you think the majority of Earth humans are going to react when coming face to face with a sentient being that doesn't look like them!?
In a way anti-gravity does exist in a very meaningful way - dark energy. The fact that the expansion of the universe is *accelerating still blows my mind two decades after it was discovered.
I love your seminars ❤🎉
I had no idea there were this many successful space missions in one year, pretty remarkable achievement
Traditional media's focus is so lost that it's beyond sad.
Right? It's accelerating quite fast, I'm excited to see if in the future colonization companies start up to colonize Mars in order to get access to Martian resources for use there. Makes you wonder if Mars could provide rare minerals to an interplanetary economy.
Space travel is science fiction. It would break 7 Laws of gas behavior. We don't live in an open gas pressure system next to a vacuum that "spaceships" can fly in and out of.
16:44 How much of that mass is Starlink satellites and how much of it is really from third party contracts?
does it even matter
And remember that Soyuz rockets are one use only, 260 landings is an amazing achievement and several boosters in the high teens. Space X is so far ahead of the competition, and will only get further ahead in 2024.
I believe they have 148 launches planned for this year!
Soyuz flies for 60+ years, so it is like a steam locomotive. I wish Russia invested in more advanced rockets, and who knows maybe be they do. Same with China. Competition is great for all parties.
Amazing information about the history of the Universe words!!!!
Great presentation on Starlink- any attempts to cover areas in the Caribbean/ Jamaica in particular.
Get approval from the powers to be?
Internet connection there in some areas could be improved / better.
4:50 music? what is that?
At 4:50? All I heard was noise.
Space X are the tip of the spear when it comes to space travel! Amazing stuff 👏 👏👏
The pressurised water is such a good idea dont know how nobody thought of it sooner
Why is it a good idea compared to traditional deluge systems?
All be happy
the rocket landing back on the ground was very thrilling to watch 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
He is absolutely right
I appreciate with him ❤❤❤
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20:32 “You can’t live off the land on Mars”
So far this must be the understatement of the century.
2 seconds later he mentions how it will be a difficult task. Cant live off the land in Antarctica but we sure as shit are there.
@@AtomicEquation If you were prepared to live off fish you probably could. Whats more it’s at least 30 degrees C warmer, has air to breath and not bombarded by lethal radiation. The human presence on Antartica is purely for scientific purposes, no one is suggesting people emigrate there.
@@mitseraffej5812 Mars would also be purely scientific research until deemed feasible. If possible at all. What's wrong with just trying? Its just human exploration. I dont see much to our existence without exploration. We just gonna sit around here forever till the sun explodes?
@@AtomicEquation When the sun explodes Mars will be engulfed along with Earth.
exactly! Trying to use this as a reason for Mars exploration demonstrates a complete lack of even basic science..
Congratulations spacex team just awesome and amazing success 🙌 😊
❤😂🎉🎉🎉🎉 splendid launch. Congratulations 🎊 SpaceX ❤
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Remember when the United States government use to acknowledge the wonderful success of this magnitude!
You mean the $4.1 billion contract awards by the Biden administration to SpaceX isn’t acknowledging their success???
The absolute best part is all those engineers ecstatic about the progress... go team Spacex.
Elon, very refreshing to finally hear from someone who has a vision for humanity, and is smart enough to execute it!
Hello.🌺I want to personally thank you for your and love. I've seen a couple of your likes and comments on my fan pages. You're not just a fan, you're family. The future can be yours if you believe it. You're loved.🚀🚀
@@ElonMusk-sw4ot Thanks, even though you are not the real Elon Musk!!
@@tfox922 mean?
Conquering Maras will not solve humanity's problems. Save the only home that man has, mother earth
I don't see how breeding an entire generation that has to make their own air, water and food isn't going to breed appreciation for Earth
Im going thru a very hard time in life i wish i can go to space,
I’m sorry that you’re going through a hard time…
I wish I could go home…
but, I am home…
wish Earth still
felt like home.
It’s probably an amazing feeling to get to see a rocket launch and cheer with a bunch of people - if you can’t go to space, maybe check out the 5-10 minute segment of this video for vicarious victory feels with rockin’ triumph jam tunes.
@@faithandherghosts yes this video made me feel a lil better but I gotta do better lol
Interesting commentary on Starlink capability expanding internet access to previously data-deprived and isolated places where people can then learn anything from anywhere. There are places on Earth that are paradise, heaven…and there are places that have been hellscapes for a long time. At extremes, neither heaven nor hell is aware of worlds beyond the boundary of the wildest dreams and unimaginable nightmares that for some people are simply the worlds they know as real.
The dreams of the future in the 20th century sowed from the fears of the past in the 19th century is really fucking up the history of the 21st century.
“If you lose too much oxygen there’s no place to get oxygen from…if that oxygen leak is too significant, there’s no place to get oxygen. You are just going to die. The requirements for getting everything perfect are insane. Everything has to be absolutely perfect to work.”
“…floating out there…you know…in the vacuum of space…and come back…”
I’ll stay here and play in the pool with an inflated suit. Floating. Maybe do some zipping around the deep end if there is a suit that someone messes up and gets a hole in that can be patched enough to hold air on Earth, but is too busted for space.
And about those space lasers…
may I please have a word with Dr. Evil?
Send me to Mars. I am ready to live there.
What are those blue leds around the screen for?
Sci fi- or presentation event vibes or mind control to keep the crowd calm
Hot-staging is the whole problem with the current Starship config, there's insufficient interstage venting, which creates a "dynamic shock" at stage separation for both stages, which is why both stages were lost due to fuel sloshing. The Russians had the exact same problem with hot-staging at first also, and solved it by enlarging the venting interstage by opening it up into a bare support framework. All that's needed for the Starship is an additional interstage section minus the deflection baffle at its bottom stacked on top of the first one that has a baffle, which will ease the dynamic shock at separation thanks to the improved venting from the added upper interstage, minimizing fuel sloshing.
I would literally email this to them just in case they aren't already planning on it, great insight.
i NEED TO BE THERE WITH YOU WHILE I AM STILL ALIVE and functioning . LIVING AT THIS MOMENT in time and not being part of this ..... what a waste of living time in consciousness .
Go Ellon!! Your an true true Inspiror(sp?)inspirational!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
We believe in you,we love your mind,& we love your explorations! We love the positive conclusions,thank you. What a guy!! 💝💥💫
Why don't you use a launch ramp that starts at a downhill attitude (maybe 30 degrees), then accelerates to a level track, and finally upwards after the initial speed has been achieved with the assistance of gravity. It seems the the savings in fuel would be enormous. This could be done with a reusable rocket sled. You could call it the "Roller Coaster launch Ramp".
Unfortunately the potential fuel savings are anything but huge - the cost would be huge though. You have to go relatively slow while in the atmosphere and can get up to real speeds only when approaching vacuum.
Definitely the special one 🌏🌙🌒🌐
What happened to Q&A?
Wow😮 you're Rocking it Big Time!!!¡
Wow! I want to move to Texas ❤
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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 👏 *Introduction and Accomplishments*
- Elon Musk lauds SpaceX's past achievements, expressing high praise for the team and hinting at the goal of occupying Mars.
01:00 🚀 *Falcon Rockets' Success*
- Record-breaking number of Falcon rocket launches,
- Falcon Heavy surpassing Saturn 5's heavy-lift record,
- Reusability as a key to the future of space exploration.
03:20 📈 *Starlink Missions and Reusability*
- Starlink missions alongside customer payloads for NASA and others,
- Reusability advancements with Falcon 9 boosters.
08:22 🌌 *Vision for Multiplanetary Civilization*
- The goal of becoming a multiplanet species,
- The need for speed in establishing self-sustaining colonies on Mars,
- The urgency of this mission due to potential civilization-ending events.
13:35 🛰️ *Falcon Launch Cadence and Recovery*
- Increase in Falcon's launch cadence over time,
- Achievements in fairing recovery,
- SpaceX's operational fleet of ships for rocket recovery.
16:43 💡 *Breakthroughs with Dragon*
- Dragon surpassing the Space Shuttle in time in orbit,
- Dragon performing more missions to the ISS than the Space Shuttle.
20:28 🐉 *Progress with Dragon and Starlink*
- Updates on Dragon developments, future spacewalk, and suits,
- Overview of Starlink's goals and capabilities, including the NextGen Hardware.
27:08 🌐 *Starlink Internet and Partner Announcements*
- Starlink enhancing global internet connectivity,
- New developments with thrusters,
- Announced partnerships for direct-to-cell services.
41:05 🏗️ *Starship Updates*
- Achievements and future goals of the Starship program,
- Details on upgrades between Starship flights.
54:06 🌑 *Future Missions and NASA HLS*
- Starship's role in NASA's upcoming Artemis lunar missions,
- Building a permanent, occupied moon base as the next goal.
58:03 🪐 *Long-Term Goal: Mars Colonization*
- Envisioning a flourishing Martian city,
- The potential for terraforming Mars into an Earth-like planet.
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Kudos to all involved - you're making the future truly exciting 👏👏👏
A few years ago I worked for the cable industry and tried to get Comcast to strike up a partnership with Starlink and I was completely ignored or laughed at. I expect at some point TMobile or Comcast will eventually try to broker a deal to share the infrastructure and trade but hey what do I know.
You are an inspiration to me...😮..
(from seoul in south korea)
Starlink has been a huge deal in Australia, its been amazing.
Huge deal for russia too
Huge deal for russia too
Huge deal for russia too
Excellent and inspirational. Its sad that without Musk we would have no chance of getting back to the moon, or colonizing Mars, anytime soon. For 50 years we treaded water while spending tens of billions per year. Single handedly Musk is bringing back the dream of space which I first saw with 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was four. Where are governments and companies with vision? There are none. I have asked myself- where has American exceptionalism been demonstrated over the last twenty years, and I can think of only three areas ... fracking for oil which creates hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of value and single handedly reduced the trade deficit making the US the largest oil producer, Tesla, which singlehandedly created the modern electric car and in the space of twenty years became the biggest car company in the world, and SpaceX that drastically reduced launch prices and saved the US Commercial launch business by creating a reuseable rocket that no one had the audacity to even think about (not to mention Starlink which with the low cost mass production concept is likely to revolutionize the satellite industry). Literally two of the three areas are Musk's and one was a technique actively disliked by the government. Where are the other visionaries that make things happen? Everyone is talk, or takers, and no-one is a doer or creator... It's depressing. Thank God for Musk or the US and world would be even more mediocre.
54:00 Santos Dumond *
Don’t mention. Just continue with the amazing work /accomplishments.👍🏼👍🏼
Wow. What an amazing feat. I also wasn’t aware of that many launches either and for everyone to make orbit and have a successful landing. That crowd was kind of asleep in the beginning of that I was at home wishing I was there I would’ve been a little more excited/appreciative. Anyway, great work
Wild that any boosters lost were because the sea is a cruel mistress!
I have a feeling most of these people work at SpaceX so they are probably well aware of nearly everything he said. And while it is good to pat yourself on the back every now and then. We've all been to these company meetings where the CEO is talking and you're just kind of zoning out. It also looks like its getting late maybe some are wondering how long he's gonna talk because they need to get home and make dinner. Perhaps I'm wrong on all this, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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There are no planets within reach that are habitable.
Yeah, but humans are stubborn and we'll inhabit them anyway.
Mars
@@Live2ride2live54321 ~ the surface radiation of Mars is now very well understood. You and the earthly materials you brought wouldn’t make it 6 months.
@@nathanaelvetters2684 ~ brilliantly true!… 🤓
None of that is insurmountable , we are getting there. With all the nay sayers saying that, hope you enjoy your crow served cold. The technology coming out of earth sciences will help us here on terrafirma, as well anywhere else we go to. Most of the general public has no clue as to the dynamics, game changing capabilities that are coming online. Nothing is going to stop Elon of accomplishing the task at hand, we are going back to the moon, we are going to Phobos, we are going to Mars, we are going to the asteroid belts.
The space industry within the next 5 years will out pace the entire world’s economy to trillions. Now all of that is possible once starship goes orbital. It will lift the entire world out of poverty, yes I said that.
What day in Feb. is the next Starship launch? Does anyone know yet or have a good guess?
Luv the mechzilla animation! Lol
Launching 96 rockets in one year is an outstanding achievement. Landing ALL of their boosters is mind-boggling....
Before we make life multiplanetary we should make humans reach another level of consciousness, otherwise we only gonna blow ourselves up like we are close to do here.
It was this moment.
Superheavy LEO is going to be cramaz.
They should really start with our moon, not Mars. It´s faster to reach and thus can be supplied faster.
You are right, and luckily they are starting with the moon.
Also, the moon is way easier because you can *always* get there in a couple days. While it takes 6-9 months to get to Mars, and you can only do that at one moment every two years time.
And communication to the moon only takes 2 seconds, while it can take up to 20 minutes for Mars
Its a bit suspicious that it isnt even talked about. It nakes perfect logical sense. I just commented tye same thing. A few things are not adding up
@@loadapish Elon Musks thought process is that we need a civilisation which is completely independent from Earth. And he likes sci fi. So the moon is probably too close to Earth for him?
SpaceX will start with the moon, because there are customers paying for it (NASA and the Japanese dude). The internal goal is obviously Mars and I wouldn't be surprised that once feasibility humans on Mars is proven NASA will step up and become a customer.
Bro they are going to the Moon first to build a permanent moon base, but the ultimate goal is to go to Mars, and the moon is just a stepping stone to that goal.
Elon Musk good work
The real key to most of his ambitions would be the understanding and manipulation of gravity and the ability to travel faster than what is possible with chemical propulsion. Moon, Mars and Jupiter Moons are nice and important intermediate steps but in the long run, a self relying civilization would need better environments than dead planets with almost no atmosphere…and to reach suitable candidates, we need to advance our modes of travel.
Congratulations, success is great when a vision becomes a reality.
He looks like Launchpad McQuack in that jacket.
Love this guy
He's an idio*....
he does vipassana meditation, and is still a m0r0n
This brings me so much joy, I love this man and his visions.
And the team. Without the team nothing of this scale would exist!!
Mr Musk you are mature enough to understand that people, don't eat hay anymore!
I was half expecting a " Your all fired" comment at the end.
This is amazing!
Each time you puncture our precious atmosphere. I hope that doesn't add up to damage like almost everything else we do.
The atmosphere is a gradient, it thins out to nothingness. It is not a dome.
He’s letting all the air out; that’s why it’s getting so hard to breathe.
Is the motorshead liric ancient spade engine space where ninja sticker?
sir elon musk congratulation, the futur of humanity is with you. we are with you forever
That was a rough one Elon.
Go Space X!
Our only option is to go out there into space.
How is possible to comprehend all this. Straight over my head. But i still like listening.
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 💙SpaceX 🚀🚀🚀Falcon and Starlink and most of all to our dear sir Elon Musk for a great 2023🌟
Elon is hilarious. I love his humor and enthusiasm.
You love "on-the-spectrum" humor?
Absolutely!!! @@YolkaholicProductions
Eon I lost you watch were I lost because my self to continue with you
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
I think I should use abstractions in every project
Oh wow it will be awesome to be there 😮
@@ElonMusk-qt9sn 2 years I known your name, but my son spoke to me about you, and I started watching your videos and interviews and I was speechless.
Es gigante que a pequena essa turma e a humanidade agradece por existir
We can fly to Mars, but we cannot fix Tesla's broken wipers. Sure Elon.
Don't tempt the Higher Powers by defaming St. Elon of Musk! Begone, blasphemous one! 😂
Sorry he cares more about the human race than your windshield whipers Go cry
Right now we can't do neither, but we are working on it. Stay tuned!
Love to see how much better he is at carrots not just sticks.
They deserve some recognition on what they have done. Bravo elon. Great leadership 👏
We can do it!
Great work of Space X although Elon is riding on old technology. Would be nice to see some development from deep deep Military programs within the US
Top secret technology is neither cheap nor fast, so it's unusable for Elons plans.
Awesome presentation! Awesome job, Elon and SpaceX team! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Keep up the good work! To the Moon, Mars, and Beyond! 🚀 ❤🔥
Wehrres the teslas in the back ground???
Why nissan Altima in the back ground????
Elon is by Far the BEST MAN FOR THE JOB!! ROCK AND ROLL!!
The real key to most of his ambitions would be the understanding and manipulation of gravity and the ability to travel faster than what is possible with chemical propulsion. Moon, Mars and Jupiter Moons are nice and important intermediate steps but in the long run, a self relying civilization would need better environments than dead planets with almost no atmosphere…and to reach suitable candidates, we need to advance our modes of travel..
I disagree, all we need is a massive factory on one of the rocky moons or planets and to make massive satellites to orbit the sun in the goldilox zone,- then we dont even need multiple planets we basically have infinite space for that.
If you find a way to manipulate gravity that doesn't involve enormous masses be sure to let Elon know!
If Starship makes it to space, I predict it'll be primarily an unmanned heavy lifter to low earth orbit. But one you want to go to the moon or Mars, reusability lowers in value because the fuel costs grow exponentially. So it is better to see EVERYTHING above geosynchronous orbits as disposable.
What's the latest estimate? 17 refueling starships (18 Apollo Saturn 5 rockets) needed to get ONE starship to the moon's surface and back? It's crazy! But it shows Starship might be a good refueling ship to send SMALLER ships to the moon or Mars.
I don't see the starship being SAFE for human travel for a decade. Maybe by 2032 we'll have enough launches to consider sending people on it, up or down.
SpaceX already has a disposable second dragon stage, so why not keep with this, mass produce single-use stage 2 rockets, to get humans into space?
My Mars plan would be to put a small research station on Mars' inner moon Phobos, not as deep into gravity well, easier to return to earth, and an excavated base can have radiation protection, and potentially mine materials. Then you can live remote control rovers on Mars, no need to leave the surface, but 100 faster exploration ability. We can bring 100 rovers, distributed across the surface most interesting places, at less cost than ONE manned landing on Mars in a fixed location.
The math doesn't support that. IF you had just done some thinking, even al little you'd realize with a 1200 ton fuel capacity a 100 ton starship would take 12, a 200 ton starship will take 6. 17 is not the product of intelligent thinking. You were spoon fed nonsense and you repeated it blind.
@@aresmars2003We have a plan that includes Phobos extensively into our long term plans.
I consider it to be his "GFY signature jacket" now !!! You got me. Can't help it and so don't you! lol
Good to hear it was an amazing year for SpaceX/ Falcon/ made launches/ all 🛬- congratulations 🎈
Keep up the good work!🚀🚀
Lol
Thanks for the continous love and support ❤
How long have you been a fan of mine?
A few months after you bought Twitter- now X and I started following you and CEO, LindaY.
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Shouldn’t never be- otherwise.
Keep up the good work also with Falcon 9/SpaceX🚀🚀
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Your support is what
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I gotchu on the sharks lasers thing Elon, was funny. Bad crowd lol
hope he sees this, simp