SpaceX Starship’s game changing Starlink launch capabilities || Starship on the Moon before 2022 Things are looking pretty good for Elon Musk and SpaceX, the company he founded back in 2002 with the intent of reinvigorating space exploration. In the last six months alone, SpaceX has conducted two successful untethered tests with the SpaceX Starship Hopper, finished work on the first orbital-class Starship test vehicle and deployed the first batch of its Starlink broadband internet satellites to space.
SpaceX Starship, currently in parallel development at SpaceX’s South Texas and Florida facilities, is intended to be an all-purpose successor to, and replacement for, both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, with a higher payload capacity and the ability to reach the Moon and eventually Mars.
And at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, which took place last week in Washington, DC, SpaceX president and Cheif Operations Officer Gwynne Shotwell outlined plans for its two development, giving her forecast for when the company will fly people on its next-generation rocket and begin offering internet from its satellite network.
SpaceX has already received more than $1.3 billion this year for its two major ongoing projects. One is building the SpaceX Starship. The other ambitious project is Starlink, a network of up to 30,000 satellites that will provide global internet coverage. SpaceX is building multiple Starship rockets at once, as founder Elon Musk has the company on an ambitious timeline to begin launching Starship regularly and prove that it can be reused easily, like an aircraft.
In this video Engineering Today will discuss SpaceX’s Plans to Land Starship on the Moon within three years, with people soon after.
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