The most significant adjustment involves the giant vehicle's stage-separation process, which failed on the first flight.
That heat comes from the 33 Raptor engines on Starship's first stage, a giant booster the company calls Super Heavy. The upper stage, a 165-foot-tall spacecraft known as Starship, sports six Raptors.
The Starship that flew on April 20 was powered by Raptors that"were somewhat of a hodgepodge," a collection that was built and tested over the course of a year or so, Musk said. The Starship being groomed for the next flight will feature more uniform engines with several slight but important improvements.
These changes are"very inside baseball," the billionaire entrepreneur told Vance. For instance, the new Raptors sport"an improved design of the hot gas manifold, as well as higher torque on the bolts of the hot gas manifold," Musk said. The April 20 launch aimed to send Starship's upper stage partway around Earth, ending with a splashdown in the Pacific near Hawaii. The next liftoff will have similar aims, Musk has said.
The pad and the next Starship vehicle — consisting of prototypes called Booster 9 and Ship 25 — should be ready for a launch inBut SpaceX isn't in complete control of the timeline. For example, a coalition of environmental groups is currently
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