SpaceX's Starship latest update
SpaceX's Starship
latest update
Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's
'top priority' from now on
Now that SpaceX has succeeded in sending
two astronauts to the ISS via its
Crew Dragon spacecraft, the teams can
devote themselves body and soul to
another
major project, of the Starship rocket, the
new top priority for Elon Musk.
Don't count on SpaceX to draw
attention back to Crew
Dragon now
that the first manned launch
has been successfully completed.
The project will now proceed
normally,
launches will follow one another
- Thomas Pesquet should join
the ISS
before the end of the year
aboard this spacecraft -
but the teams will be working
\hard on another
titanic project: the Starship rocket.
SpaceX now gives
priority
to its Starship
rocket
It is in an email from Elon
Musk obtained
by CNBC that we learn that
all SpaceX
employees must now treat
Starship as
"SpaceX's top priority
project".
The CEO urges everyone
to speed things up
as much as possible.
The only other
acceptable concern
currently in the
company will be to
"reduce the risks of
Dragon's return".
This has the merit
of being clear,
Elon Musk wants
to shift up a
gear on the design of this
huge rocket.
Not to mention getting the Dragon
Crew spacecraft into regular service
Starship is to become the main
rocket of SpaceX.
Not only will it have
enough power
for space tourism and
long-distance travel,
but it will also be a truly reusable
rocket with very short
time delays
between missions,
making space
travel much more accessible.
This rocket certainly
represents
the future of the company.
Unfortunately, the
various failures around
the project have clearly
impacted its
ambitions in more or less the
long term.
If this email is true,
it would obviously
not mean that
SpaceX will neglect its
other projects.
The Crew Dragon
capsule has indeed
transported two
astronauts to the
International Space
Station but it still
needs to enter
regular service.
One thing is sure,
the priority now
is the Starship rocket.
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