Elon Musk Takes the Long View in Glitzy Update on SpaceX's Starship Super-Rocket - by b0yle
CEO Elon Musk delivered a long-awaited, live-streamed update on his plans for launching the world’s most powerful rocket, with the spotlighted backdrop of a freshly stacked Starship and Super Heavy booster standing on the launch pad at the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas.
And as if all that’s not enough, Musk expects Starship to revolutionize space travel and society in ways that can’t be foreseen. “When you have an utterly profound breakthrough, the use cases will be hard to imagine,” he told hundreds of attendees during the Feb. 10 presentation at the Boca Chica base.
The key issue that the FAA and other government agencies are currently considering has to do with the environmental impact that Starship launches would have on the South Texas coastal ecosystem. Musk noted that SpaceX is also building a Starship launch tower and production facility at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. “We actually are approved from an environmental standpoint to launch from 39A, so I guess our worst-case scenario is that we would be delayed for six to eight months, to build up the Cape launch tower and launch from there,” he said.
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