Elon Musk: "Next Gen" SpaceX Starship Could Be Twice As Big!

Elon Musk: "Next Gen" SpaceX Starship Could Be Twice As Big!

The past week has been pretty eventful for SpaceX. On Tuesday, Aug. 27th at 05:00 PM local time 06:00 PM EST, the company conducted its second free-flight test of the Starship Hopper, which saw the test vehicle successfully ascend to 150 m (500 ft) above the ground and then land in a different spot. This test brings SpaceX one step closer to orbital tests with their full-scale prototypes of the Starship.
‘Congrats SpaceX team!’ Elon Musk wrote .
‘One day Starship will land on the rusty sands of Mars.’
About eight hours later, he then realized it resembled ‘R2D2’s Dad’ and told the world about this revelation in a tweet.
But it was what came shortly after this successful test that has people buzzing right now. A day after SpaceX's final flight of Starhopper, company founder Elon Musk dropped a clue about his super-size plans for the future.
Musk tweeted on Wednesday, 28th August that he'll present SpaceX's latest thinking about the Starship system on September 28. The date marks the 11th anniversary of the company reaching orbit for the first time with its Falcon 1 rocket.
Until then, most of what we know about SpaceX Starship comes from Musk's latest presentation from September 2018. At that time, the vehicle was still called the "Big Falcon Rocket" and was supposed to be made out of carbon-fiber composites. SpaceX is now using stainless steel but appears to be keeping similar dimensions, based on several renderings posted by Musk, including SpaceX Starship spaceship on the moon and Mars surface.
Those dimensions suggest the first operational version of SpaceX Starship would be a vehicle about 30 feet (9 meters) wide and 387 feet (118 meters) tall. Yet Musk is already dreaming up an even bigger version of SpaceX Starship.
In this video Engineering Today will discuss Elon Musk “NEXT GENERATION” craft that could be 8 Times Bigger than SpaceX Super Heavy Starship.
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