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Musk rolls out Starship in Boca Chica TX
[NASASpaceflight.com]
Photos and discussion are at the title link. Sometime later YouTube will have the livestream converted to a video.
The beginning was a bit delayed by a very negative NASA administrator tweet followed by putting a NASA livestream discussion about their upcoming mission to the moon during the same time period that Musk had his speech scheduled.
One of NASA's complaints was not spending enough effort on commercial crew. Musk said %65 of SpaceX current spending was on Commercial Crew vs %5 on Starship.
As to Starship. MK-1 Boca, MK2- Kennedy followed quickly by MK-3 Boca and MK-4 Kennedy. The Starships were a bit heavy so the the current ones can't do SSTO on earth. MK-1 is 200 metric tons empty. He hopes by 4 or 5 to get to 120 metric tons empty. After MK-4 production will begin in both Boca Chica and Kennedy on the Starship Heavy boosters. He thinks this will be in about 6 months. Possibly orbital before 1 year with booster launch. Booster will do 22-35 engines depending on need.
Short term plan is to quickly evolve and rapidly produce Starships and boosters, |
Posted by: 3dc 2019-09-29 |
