The Starship would be the biggest rocket in the world. It may also be the cheapest way to get started. To do this, SpaceX will have to launch fleets of starships every day and find customers for the huge amount of cargo they can carry. Together, SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket are called Starship.
They are fully reusable transportation systems that can take both people and cargo to places like Earth’s orbit, the Moon, Mars, and other places. The Starship will be the most powerful rocket launcher in the world. It will be able to send more than 100 metric tonnes into Earth’s orbit.
Starship will be an incredible enabler for science. Full reusability & high production rate drive several orders of magnitude improvement in $/kg to orbit & beyond.
Next gen Starlink constellation is primary user of this rocket, so science doesn’t need to cover fixed cost.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2022
When Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, talks about Starship, he mostly talks about human exploration: making humans a multi-planet species by setting up bases on Mars and saving humanity from extinction.
Today, Elon Musk replied to a tweet about the starship by saying, “A starship will be an amazing tool for science. Full reuse and a high rate of production cause the cost per kilogram to go to orbit and beyond to go up by an order of magnitude. “Since the next-generation Starlink constellation is the main user of this rocket, science does not have to pay for fixed costs.”
