Elon Musk gives us a first look at Starship’s mission to Mars from Starbase, SpaceX’s facility in South Texas. He said that 2022 is the year they hope to launch their largest rocket to date into orbit, one that eventually will transport both people as well as cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The system consists of two parts: a massive first-stage Super Heavy booster and an upper-stage spacecraft called Starship.
When both elements are stacked, Starship stands 390-feet tall, which is taller than any other rocket ever built, and its thrust will be more than twice that of the NASA’s Saturn V. Super Heavy and Starship are both designed to be fully reusable, capable of launching from Earth’s surface once every 6-8 hours. The Super Heavy section will be able to do so approximately every hour to deliver up to 150 tons of payload to orbit.
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I feel, at this point, highly confident that we’ll get to orbit this year. It may be as little as a few million dollars per flight — maybe even as low as a million dollars per flight. These are crazy low numbers by space standards,” said Musk.
