Elon Musk has a giant new addition to his plans for colonizing Mars the starship rocket for years this rocket was merely a concept on paper but not anymore on Saturday September 28th musk stood in front of a fully assembled prototype of the rocket as he unveiled SpaceX's future plans which future do you want do you want the future where we've become a space faring civilization and are in many worlds and now out there among the stars or one where we are forever confined to earth and I say it is the first if all goes according to plan.
When starship is complete it will tower three hundred and eighty seven feet tall measure thirty feet in diameter and be capable of transporting people to Mars for comparison it will be about five and a half times taller than SpaceX is first successful rocket the Falcon one starship is the rocket that musk has aspired to build ever since he founded SpaceX in 2002 and after years of modeling multiple changes to the Rockets design and a substantial investment from Japanese billionaire yuusaku Misawa.
It has come out looking on like anything SpaceX has ever built before for example SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket are covered by an aluminum lithium alloy but as you can see starship is covered with something different which must call the best design decision of the entire project steel is the best design decision on this whole thing is a 301 stainless steel because at cryogenic temperatures a 301 stainless actually has about the same effective strength as an advanced composite or aluminum lithium unlike most Steel's which get brittle at low temperature 301 stainless gets much stronger and unlike the nine engines on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket s-- starship will fly on six more powerful Raptor engines the ship will have a total of six engines three of the c-level variety of raptor and those are actually on the rocket.
Right now in fact that's a picture of just inside that's good that's what it looks like and they take gimbal which is which means that the whole engine moves so the way the rocket steers is by moving the entire engine so whereas an aircraft engine isstatic and you move by moving like thecontrol surfaces like the airlock ailerons and rudder and elevator and flaps with the rocketship when the engines are powered you move the entire engine to steer it the starship will have three c-level engines that move up to about 15 degrees angle and three vacuum engines that are optimized for efficiency that will not move they'll be just fixed in place.
Musk said that within the next one to two months SpaceX will launch this starship prototype called Mach one to twelve and a half miles in the air and then land it back home in Boca Chica Texas after that our next flight after that might actually just be all the way to orbit with abooster and the ship the prototype shown here will probably never reach orbit that mission will go to an upgraded version of the rocket called Mach 3 which SpaceX could start constructing as soon as next month and by next year musk says space X could be launching people to space on this thing whether that's actually the case we'll just have to wait and see in the meantime musk remains optimistic to Mars
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