The presentation starts at 9 p.m. EST tonight (Feb. 10; 0200 Feb. 11 GMT).
SpaceX is developing Starship to take people and cargo to the moon, Mars and other distant destinations, and to perform a wide variety of other tasks as well. For example, Musk has said that he envisions the vehicle eventually carrying passengers on superfast"point-to-point" trips here on Earth.
Starship consists of two elements: a giant first-stage booster known as Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall upper-stage spacecraft called Starship. Both of these pieces are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, the breakthrough that Musk and SpaceX believe is necessary to make Mars colonization and other ambitious spaceflight feats economically feasible.
The fully stacked Starship that will serve as Musk's backdrop tonight will get off the ground soon, if all goes according to plan. The vehicle is scheduled to launch on the Starship program's first-ever orbital test flight, a milestone that could occur, provided the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration wraps up an environmental assessment of Starbase by Feb. 28 as planned.
Tonight's presentation should be relatively meaty, for it'll be the first formal Starship update that Musk has given since September 2019. The first of those presentations occurred in the fall of 2016, when Musk unveiled the broad outlines of SpaceX's Mars-colonization architecture, which was then known as theThe following September, Musk revealed that the company had rebranded the ITS as the BFR . He also announced, among other things, that SpaceX aimed to fly people to Mars by 2024 and that the company plans to eventually phase out all of its other spaceflight systems, letting the BFR carry the entire load.
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