SpaceX founder Elon Musk took stage on Thursday night to deliver new information about the company’s Mars rocket, Starship. For the first
, SpaceX updated the public on Starship development in an official event. The presentation was notably light on new information, but rather served as an aggregate of progress made over the past two years.The SpaceX presentation started with an interesting question: why pursue multi-planetary space missions? Musk defended the concept by talking about the long-term and short-term dangers facing human life on Earth.
The new V2 Raptor engines took center stage at the presentation as well, both metaphorically and physically. Workers set up a single V2 Raptor engine next to an older V1 engine to allow the media to observe the visual differences between the two . The newer engine is noticeably much less complicated, with fewer pipes snaking across the top section. The engine nozzle appears to be visually unchanged, however.
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