This Is What A SpaceX Starship Launch Will Look Like

This Is What A SpaceX Starship Launch Will Look Like

SpaceX’s Elon Musk provided a new Starship update from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. The place that SpaceX views as the ‘gateway to Mars.’

A new SpaceX video shows what Elon Musk’s vision for a Starship launch would look like. Spacecraft that will explore the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, the outer borders of the solar system, and beyond take decades to develop. In this way, space is unlike any other field. It takes lots of time, hard work, a fixed objective, and considerable patience.

With the Falcon 9, SpaceX has positioned itself as a company that offers one of the safest, cheapest, and most efficient rocket launchers. Recently, the Falcon 9 topped historical ranks for successful flights with more than 113 in a row. Falcon 9 has safely landed hundreds of times and is reusable. However, Musk did not build SpaceX to launch the Falcon 9.

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Years ago Musk shared a vision of making life interplanetary. In 2022, that vision remain the same, and a new animated video shows exactly what it might be like. The company’s flagship Starship spacecraft could begin orbital test flights as early as March, pending FAA approval. The Starship has already done 150-meter hop tests and successfully nailed a high-altitude flight and safe landing. Now SpaceX is stacking up the necessary Starship rocket stages it needs to reach orbit. Starship is already expected to be used to return humans to the Moon as part of the NASA Artemis Mission, the first civilian Moon orbit. Of course, missions to Mars are also on the to-do list as well.

Mars, Mars, And…Mars

SpaceX Starship Update Video 2022

To make life multi-planetary, Musk says a spacecraft like Starship is needed. According to Musk, and many agree, it is “the holy grail” of rocketry, a rapid and reusable rocket system. The rockets that take the Starship into orbit can launch, land, refuel, and launch again in one hour. The Starship can do the same in six hours as it needs to do up to three 90-minute orbits of Earth before reentering. Musk has previously suggested that Starship could be used to provide long-distance city-to-city human flights, cutting international 20-hour airline routes down to just 40 minutes. The Starship can also refill and refuel other spacecraft in orbit.

Looking at any NASA spacecraft or rover, it is clear to see that even the most ambitious ones are small, sometimes miniaturized. This is because no rocket ever built has had the capacity to take such large things into space. SpaceX believes that reusability needs to be met with a dramatic increase in payload capacity per flight. The Starship in just one year, launching three times a day, could ferry 15,517 tons into space. That is the same amount of weight humans have taken to space since the first rocket launched. The ability to carry thousands of tons, heavy machinery, and hundreds of astronauts at once is how Musk plans to build a city on Mars.

SpaceX is setting up Starbase shop in Boca Chica, Texas, and in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the expectation that the company will launch three Starships each day in the near future. It would seem that the SpaceX strategy is simple – launch as many Starships as possible, as fast as possible. After all, flying them is exactly how rockets will get better and safer. SpaceX has a lot of plans for Starship, but Musk seems fixated on one in particular, and that’s Mars, Mars, and…Mars.

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