The image here come from Elon Musk and is concept art of the Starship test vehicle SpaceX is currently assembling at its Boca Chica, Texas launch facility. The real thing will be even better. This test vehicle is shorter and lacks the windows of the production ship that will eventually go into production. Starship test […]
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SpaceX’s Starship goes sci-fi shiny with stainless steel skin
SpaceX’s futuristic Starship interplanetary craft may embody the golden age of sci-fi in more ways than one: in addition to (theoretically) taking passengers from planet to planet, it may sport a shiny stainless steel skin that makes it look like the pulp covers of old. Founder and CEO Elon Musk teased the possibility in a […]
View More SpaceX’s Starship goes sci-fi shiny with stainless steel skinSpaceX’s next huge rocket has a new name
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SpaceX’s next and soon-to-be most powerful rocket officially has a new name.
The private spaceflight company’s founder, Elon Musk, announced on Twitter late Monday night that SpaceX’s BFR — short for Big Falcon Rocket or Big F*cking Rocket, depending on who you ask — is now going to be known as SpaceX’s Starship.
It’s an aspirational name for a rocket that hasn’t yet flown, but Musk has high hopes for the future booster and ship.
Technically, two parts: Starship is the spaceship/upper stage & Super Heavy is the rocket booster needed to escape Earth’s deep gravity well (not needed for other planets or moons)
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2018 Read more…
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View More SpaceX’s next huge rocket has a new nameElon Musk just renamed SpaceX’s Big F** Rocket
BFR, the monster rocket that will cost SpaceX roughly $5 billion to develop, has a new name. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Monday night that he has renamed the company’s largest (and yet to be built) BFR rocket to Starship. Or more precisely, the spaceship portion will be called Starship. The rocket booster used […]
View More Elon Musk just renamed SpaceX’s Big F** Rocket18 new details about Elon Musk’s redesigned, moon-bound ‘Big F*ing Rocket’
Although the spotlight at this week’s SpaceX event was squarely on Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa — the first paying passenger for the company’s nascent space tourism business — Elon Musk also revealed a wealth of new details about the BFR and just how this enormous rocket and spacecraft will get to the moon and back. […]
View More 18 new details about Elon Musk’s redesigned, moon-bound ‘Big F*ing Rocket’Elon Musk tweets new images of SpaceX’s forthcoming BFR spacecraft
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That’s one big effing rocket.
With the imminent reveal of the mystery passenger who will be flying around the moon in SpaceX’s forthcoming BFR, Elon Musk tweeted two new renders of the spacecraft.
The 106 metre (347 feet) long ship was first announced last year, and Musk said the ship will contain up to 40 cabins which will have enough space for 100 people.
BFR’s booster will be powered by 31 Raptor engines, while the ship itself will have 7 Raptor engines, which appear to be arranged like a honeycomb.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2018 Read more…
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View More Elon Musk tweets new images of SpaceX’s forthcoming BFR spacecraftSpaceX to build its massive BFR in Los Angeles
The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. The company intends to build a manufacturing facility on an 18-acre site at Berth 240 and use waterways to transport the massive rocket. SpaceX says the BFR is simply too big to […]
View More SpaceX to build its massive BFR in Los AngelesSpaceX is making big money moves
Planning a mars mission, a global telecommunications network for inexpensive internet service, and creating an interplanetary hedge against world war three isn’t cheap, so it’s no wonder that SpaceX is closing on $500 million in new cash through a financing round led by Fidelity, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the round. Responding to clamoring […]
View More SpaceX is making big money movesElon Musk says SpaceX to focus on BFR following Falcon Heavy launch
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said at a press event for the just-launched Falcon Heavy that SpaceX will now begin focusing in earnest on ‘BFR,’ the code name for its next big space launch vehicle. BFR (aka ‘big f*cking rocket’ in case you lack imagination) will be designed to be a vehicle capable of using a single stage to make it all the way to orbit, with fully loaded tanks.… Read More