Elon Musk SpaceX & Starship Presentation!

it's been an incredible year the SpaceX team I think is the best space team that has ever been assembled on the face of the Earth by far and the achievements of the past year demonstrate that I think to a degree that is mind-blowing like what you have achieved over the past year is nothing short of incredible and one day we will indeed occupy Mars so let's go through everything that uh SpaceX has achieved that you've done and it's it's actually going to take a while by the way this this is going to take a minute first of all with falcon we have achieved the most launches of any rocket in a single year ever so the the next best is was the Soviet soy which I think did a little over 60 launches in a year and we did 96 this yeah so no other family of orbital class Rockets has launched more than 63 times a year that was soy and we did 50% more Falcon heavy also surpassed in terms of heavy lift Vehicles the record for Saturn which I think did yeah with five launches last year we exceeded the Saturn 5 record so that was like pretty incredible on Falcon heavy so this gives you a sense in pictures of how incredible that was for a while there I was like when I was like I'd be posting something is this like the launch that just happened or the one that is happening or like because there were like three launches that happened in the space of a few days but this is all the Launches on one page and yeah it's really incredible all made it to orbit all landed just a huge handful of the Falcon team that was incredible and two3 of the missions were starlink but a third were for other customers for NASA for other communication satellites it was a combination of our of stalling plus a lot of other missions so even if you just take the non- stalling portion of the flights that was more than any other vehicle last year by long shot we launched NASA's psyche isa's uclid the X 37b space plane multiple transport emissions we launched did missions for one web ViaSat and we're actually on contract to launch Amazon's hyper consolation and we treat everyone fairly so just one and just and we managed to do 19 flights on a single falcon9 booster which is really incredible in three and a half years so and that vehicle did that booster did 860 satellites and delivered 260 metric tons to orbit so it's like wow so there's a lot of Wows and it's worth you know like like how long ago was that we landed a a booster was actually 8 years ago in December roughly 8 years ago and since that time we've landed 260 times so 260 Landings it's just like wow there were a lot of people that said that it couldn't be done and then there were a lot of people that said even if it could be done it's a dumb idea that it wouldn't it wouldn't pay off that it wouldn't you know it wouldn't make sense but we've shown that in fact it is absolutely the right idea reusability is the key to a great future in space it's essential we need reusability for rucket just like we have re reusability for cars for airplanes for bicycles for horses obviously reusability is is essential and the the fundamental invention that is necessary for Humanity to become a a multiplet species is a full and rapidly race Bas rapidly usable reliable Rockets I mean it's incredible how much has happened in 8 years I wonder what what will things be like 8 years from now hopefully we have I think we will have landed on MOS and I think we will have sent people to the moon and and maybe if we get lucky we will have sent people to Mars uh within 8 years the key question sort of I think about for civilization is are the key test perhaps for civilization is do we make it through the great filter of being a going from a one planet civilization to a multiplet civilization and if we are if we do multiplet civilization we may go out there to other star systems and discover many long Dead one planet civilizations and we don't want to be one of them that's lame we don't want to be one of those lame One Planet civilizations but I think we should always regard civilization as fragile as not something that not a situation where there is an inevitable upward trajectory I mean I read a lot about history and if you look at if you read read history you you see that civilizations are anything but permanent many civilizations have risen and fallen over the years over the centuries and Millennia and eventually the sun will expand boil the oceans and destroy all life on earth now admittedly that's you know several hundred million years in the future but it's only about maybe 10 or 20% of the existence of Earth itself if Earth is 4 and a half billion years old then another 10 10 20% longer and life would or intelligent life would not have evolved cuz it's taken us a long time to get to this point that's really that's really the key test do we become a self-sustaining multiplet civilization while C ization still exists or don't we that you know I think that's really the key question I think we've got a good chance but it's not a sure thing that's why time is of the Ence I think we want to make Mars self- sustaining as quickly as possible it's not just a question of getting people to Mars but it's getting enough tonnage and equipment to Mars to make enable Mars to be self- sustaining the key test being that if the resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason do we does Mars die out or does it continue that's the that's the really the fundamental threshold to pass the the firy Paradox great filter the firmy Paradox is where are the aliens you know if if if life is common if intelligent life is common shouldn't we see a lot of evidence of it now I get asked a lot about you know aliens actually and I usually say I am one well actually I used to be according to you know Homeland Security it's an alien registration card literally I was like okay but but the truth is I actually have not seen any evidence of aliens which I think is maybe a bit more troubling than if I had I have not seen any and I'd be on it and I you can pretty much guarantee that I would post about it instantly okay I was like Yep this we got one this is a spaceship for sure but I have not seen anything so that leavs me to think that we're more likely to be a tiny candle of Consciousness in a vast emptiness a vast Darkness you know that the civilization that we have is really just this very small candle in a vast darkness and we just must do everything possible to ensure that candle does not go out yeah anyway I think we can do it so you know but we need to move fast cuz you just never know I mean there could be you know at any given point there's like Steven Hawking actually I believe said that he thought there was like roughly a 1% chance in any given Century of civilization ending that was his rough estimate I think it actually might be higher than that so we just want to go there fast so this is the getting back to falcine back to reality this is these are all the launches we've done and you can see how the Cadence of launches has rapidly increased over time I think people online have actually assembled videos showing every launch and it just gets like crazy fast as you get to 2023 yeah so we've we've done a 193 flight we're now qualifying Falcon 9 to be able to do 40 flights and we're aiming for maybe as much as 150 flights this year so and then let's not forget fairing fairing recovery because actually a lot of people don't realize we recover the fairing as well this was actually very difficult to recover the fairing so C an immense amount of effort we now quite regularly recover the Fairing and we've reflowing fairings 300 times so congrats to the the fairing recovery team that was actually pretty damn hard oh and then of course uh we do operate basically a small Navy I think people don't don't always know that but we have you know drone ships and support ships of various kinds so we've got a small Fleet of ships and we operate them very efficiently I think people also sometimes don't know the size like you can see the size of the ship by the person walking around on it it's not small so it looks cool I like this sort of kind of a doth Darth Vader aesthetic but it's I like it so and and we're also getting much better with the pad turnaround we achieved a 3-day pad turnaround and I think we're aiming to hopefully get under 24 hours pad turnaround by the end of this year so in terms of yeah launch rate yeah so it's been 15 years since flight one of Falcon 1 oh sorry flight four of Falcon 1 the first one to reach orbit so 15 years since we we got anything at all to to all it yeah and now we're aiming to have 150 flights or thereabouts this year so they're big rockets at this point Falcon one is a little rocket in fact when I see Falcon 1 right now I was like man I think IID probably tuck that under my arm and just take it home with me you I was like launch it in the backyard or something it looks so cute but at the time Falcon 1 did seem like extremely it was extremely difficult it took us four flights to reach orbit and it did seem kind of big at the time but now it's like it look adorable thing yeah so the the most I think the most profound metric or the the metric that really describes the magnitude of what SpaceX achieved in 2023 is the master Orit number so and you can see the incredible change just year-over year so 2021 we're slightly below rest of world 22 we I think roughly doubled what the rest of the world did and last year we were 80% of all master to orbit so when rest of the world we mean like the rest of us industry you know Europe India China Japan everyone so there's there's not a lot of Industries where a company is doing like 80% of everything and then what's really mindboggling is that that number should increase by 50% this year so so I guess on the order of like 90% of all master orbit not counting Starship so if we start as we start launching Starship Starship is like you know roughly 100 tons to orbit with every flight there's a path to getting Starship to do uh over 200 tons with full reusability so 200 tons to a useful orbit with full reusability and yeah it's really an incredible amount 1,200 tons of useful load to orbit last year yeah that's just astounding so I I think that that really deserves a round of applause like wow I mean that's just that's the most mind-blowing and the rate of increase is just astonishing now these numbers will actually look very small in the future in order to build a city on Mars will need to be kind of in the million ton to orbit range so maybe a little higher ideally a little higher but sort of if you just try to get things to the right order of magnitude like not try to get to an exact number but try to get the order of magnitude right I think s is roughly a million tons to to Earth orbit that'll get you roughly 200,000 tons to to the surface of Mars so roughly what you know approximately 20% of whatever you get to Earth orbit you can get to the surface of Mars and figure like maybe we need at least a million tons of useful load to the surface Mars for this for it to become self-sustaining that self- sustaining threshold is actually a very tough threshold to meet because even if you're missing a tiny thing then eventually that Mars will die out so you got to be able to not just build for example computer chips but you need to be able to build computer chip factories cuz if you can't build a computer chip factories the factory that you do build will eventually break down and then you'll have no chips and then you're that's it it's kind of like a long sea Voyage where if you're just missing vitamin C yeah you'll cruise on for a while but then you know your teeth will fall out and you'll die that was a real problem in the old days anyway it's quite a a high threshold is and and like Mars is Mars is a fixer upper of a planet you know needs some work but so it's not like you can just like run around outdoors and like you know fish or live off the land you know you can live can't live off the land on Mars so it's it's really quite a lot of work that's required uh to make that work so Dragon an amazing amount of progress with dragon and an incredible track record of success so by as of last year the dragon's Fleet time on orbit exceeded the space shuttle Fleet so we had accumulative 1300 over 1300 days of time on orbit last as as of last year so it's that's pretty mind-boggling that dragon has now had more days in orbit than the entire space shuttle Fleet it's like wow so yeah and we've had now dragon has visited the space station more times than the space shuttle as well this is an incredible achievement by the dragon team so once again as I was saying this really has been an incredible maybe the best year in company's history I mean it was the best year in the company's history actually so there's a lot of great things to go through and I'm I'm not one who gives out false praise so that's really mindboggling what what you've achieved all of the missions last year used a flight proven Dragon so the these were all these are all these dragons had all flown before and and this year we're looking to fly maybe seven or eight Dragon missions so it's really been yeah fantastic success by the dragon team this doesn't have audio there's no sound in space yeah it's a great that's a great look in space suit and in Dragon interior so yeah so we've now sent 42 humans to orbit to be precise space is space is relatively easy but orbit is very difficult so we've now taken 42 humans to orbit and back and I have to say like yeah if there's one thing I I I wish for it is that we bring them all back safely that's like some us people like say what is the one thing you wish for I said I wish we bring this astronuts back safely that was one thing if I one wish that's what it would be so and we also have now completed a second crew arm in in Florida so we've got two towers that are capable of two launch pads that are capable of sending astronauts to to orbit and this is going to be great for being able to shift missions between pad 40 and Pad 39a we've got this year our first space walk and so we've got to redesign the suit so that you can actually move around in it and you don't just like you know pop out like cuz if you just inflate the suit you know you just basically you know you're kind of like one of those like balloons at a party or something you know so it's it's quite hard to make the to still be Mobile in an inflated suit and have the joints move and stuff and then we we will actually Evacuate the whole spacecraft so everyone even those that don't go on The Space Walk will still be in vacuum so obviously very important that it work and we don't have like a little hole in the suit or something go zipping around so but I think you know obviously we're going to put a lot of testing into this and but there's going to be another significant Milestone which is to have a suit where you can be in like the vacuum of space with just nothing at all and just be out there it's hard to con it's actually hard to conceive the concept of nothingness and it's not technically nothing like there's a small number of particles per per cubic meter but it's pretty damn close to nothing if if you lose too much too much air too too much oxygen that's it there's no place to get oxygen from so like an airplane even at high altitude can increase it the the pressurization pumps and get more atmosphere from CU it's in the atmosphere Dragon Springs an oxygen leak and that oxygen leak is two significant there is no place to get oxygen you're just going to die so the requirements for getting everything perfect are insane it's everything's got to be absolutely perfect to work we did not you know evolve to live in space obviously it's a tough one but this is really going to be another great milestone is to actually be have be able to have someone floating out there you know in the vacuum of space and come back and we do want to actually have we want to have a SPAC suit that you can walk around in cuz if you're on the moon you're on you want to be able to walk around the Moon walk around a m so having a high Mobility space suit that actually isn't crazy expensive ideally and that you can walk around in comfortably is a big deal it's actually an important thing that needs to be developed and ultimately made in large numbers because if we send say a million people to Mars then that's a million space suits or a million Mars suits that you need so we'll have to make a lot of these things and we're also going to launch starlink on that flight so then coming to starlink this is a this is only a whole separate company but we're basically building rebuild building the internet in space which is pretty wild and now it is I want to emphasize supplemental to the terrestrial internet sometimes people think well it's starlink just going to take over and destroy all the terrestrial internet like I it definitely will not but what it will do is starlink will give access to the internet to to people that either don't have access or where their access is extremely expensive or or very bad access so this is a massive enabler for improving and enabling you uh people in remote locations to learn anything like you can basically learn almost anything for free on the internet right now like for example MIT has all of its lessons on YouTube you can learn almost anything if you've got an internet connection but if you don't have an internet connection you're limited to I guess book you know what maybe you got some books or something but not it's a basically starlink is a game changer for improving people's quality of life around the world like it's this might be the single well certainly one of the I think it might be the number one might o over time technology that improves impres people's standard of living around the world it's certainly a candidate for potentially being the most profound thing that actually improves quality of life of people around the world which would be really something to be proud of obviously see and we're now introducing the V2 minis this next Generation satellites that we've introduced into the constellation and yeah these are twice the capacity of last year so from 88 terabits per second to 165 and our goal the the the biggest single goal for installing from a technical standpoint is to get the mean latency below 20 Mill so that would that actually makes it's for immediacy of for actually the quality of Internet experience this is actually a really big deal also if you play video games like I sometimes do this is also important otherwise you lose so so this is anyway so that's actually a very hard problem but because we're a lowth orbit constellation the speed of light is is what do you think the speed of light is 300 kilm per millisecond so if we're at 550 km think of it like roughly 2 milliseconds up 2 milliseconds down so if you go up down up down it's 8 millisecond speed of light limitation and then almost everything else we can actually address like we can't go faster than the speed of light yet you know but probably ever B we can get the rest of the the time I think below below 10 milliseconds and so then basically it'll be more responsive than ground internet in most cases which is really what we're after here so yeah this is really amazing work we also have now launched the Aon whole thrusters which are very low cost and uses argon which is plentiful so we've gone from using Krypton which is not that rare I mean if Superman did come here be like you can get some Krypton you know and squirt gun or something like that and okay now what Krypton is a noble gas that is it's moderately rare but we would actually be using a huge percentage of the world's Krypton if we were launching that with the Gen 2 satellites and so we moved to AR argon and argon is is actually extremely plentiful in fact right now you are breathing approximately 1% argon so argon is there's a lot of of argon and but this is really the I I think the first significant argon whole Thruster and certainly by far the most cost efficient and most power efficient and it was really great job by the Starling team to create this Thruster and many other upgrades to the then there's inspace laser stuff I mean so this is by far I I think we're now sent at least, times more data maybe 10,000 times more data over laser links in space than any other system before I think we'll soon be like a million times more data transferred maybe more than that through the the starlink laser interconnects between the satellites so we now have 9,000 Active Space lasers so sort of vaguely reminds me of Dr Evil you know lasers from space actually well I guess I made that joke a long time ago it's like Dragon does have liar it has like a laser for you know docking with the space station so it's like dragons with lasers I mean like that' be better than shocks with lasers and each link each laser link is capable of 100 gbits per second and looking to increase that so let's see this is animation of all the places where starlink is active so obviously a lot of the starlink activations depend on Country approvals so as we are able to get a country approval then you see rapid adoption within a country and uh hopefully we'll get most countries most of the rest of the countries will get the approval hopefully this year and we'll be able to go almost worldwide some countries are probably unlikely to approve our system but most countries we think we should be able to get to and our goal is here is to activate service in more than half of the world's population so that would be that would be fantastic but I do want to emphasize CU we're all going to put this this presentation on online is supplemental to terrestrial internet it is not does not replace it it is stall link does not it does really well for like low population density areas but it is really not going to be competitive in high density cities or it's really low density situations which is really where the need is so anyway works well with other internet providers is what I'm saying then we've got community gateways I'm told this is a town called an Alaska a real place so a lot more gateways down as we increase the number of gateways that improves latency we've now shipped our next gen Hardware that's version four of the user terminal so that allows us to lower the cost of starlink and we'll be introducing the starlink mini later this year which can fit in a backpack so that'll be pretty cool for anyone who wants a very portable starlink and we just opened our stalling Factory in Bast Texas so that's just a little you know about 20 minutes away from Austin and this is this is going to be yeah I guess I guess some of you guys are part of that yeah in general we're we're going to have like a massive Round of Applause for Starling that is for sure because is like the achievement level there is amazing actually let's just have a massive Round of Applause it's like God Dam yeah Sor it's hard to clap with this thing yeah this the staring achievements are really mind-blowing so it's like this the stalling system is an anomaly in the The Matrix and then we we also just recently launched our our first direct to sell satellites and we were able to to send text messages directly from a phone to the satellite and then back down again so we did intentionally dispel these things by the way so although actually when I first saw it I was like is this real it turns out it is in fact real this is yeah some Dogecoin jokes basically so yeah and anyway so it's kind of amazing that you can actually close the link between a phone in your hand and a satellite that's hundreds of mil away and the satellite can hear the tiny signal that your phone is outputting which is like such a faint whisper it's ridiculous but it can actually somehow hear that faint whisper and be able to communicate with a phone is I think it's one of those things like I was is that actually physically possible but it is now I do want to emphasize this is also a not a competitor to to phone companies this is something that will be supplemental so it's going to be very helpful for remote areas where there's no cell connectivity or once in a while within a city if there is a place that has no connectivity within a city then stall link will be able to communicate with phones but it's I think it's some something on the order of 7 megabits per second within a cell and the cells are hundreds of square miles or kilometers in size so it's really it's good for you know text messages you could technically do video if you're the only one or if there's only a few people in that cell like if you're in the middle of the Pacific or something like that then but it is something that is going to be very helpful and will I think save lives of people you know if somebody's sort of hiking in a remote region and they get lost well now their phone could actually work and it could I think it will actually save a lot of lives which is cool and then we we have seven announced Partnerships so we've got T-Mobile in the US uh Rogers in Canada Optus in Australia one New Zealand salting in Switzerland kddi in Japan and Intel in Chile and Peru so and we expect to announce a number of other Telco Partnerships this year so this is definitely something where we're again in partnership with Telco I just basically don't want the Telos to get really mad at us that's what what I'm saying you know we want to be support the Telos and then of course this is slowed down a little so but that first launch did take a while to get off the pad when that took off I was like wow I can't believe it took off that was my reaction so I think I think it's incredible that it we we took off twice last year even though I've been very you know closely you know involved with the stasha program from the beginning and actually like I lived out here this is my primary residence for three years this used to be a sandb bar basically what we're looking at here and now it's got a an advanced rocket Factory and and a gigantic launch pad and we got a whole bunch of rockets out there but I still amazed that it actually got put together and took off I'm like wow I mean the a Starship is more than twice the thrust of a Saturn 5 it is by far the biggest flying object ever made and for you know with with some upgrades down the road it'll it'll actually be I think probably over 20 million pounds of thrust and Saturn 5 is 7 and A2 so it'll it'll end up being three times the thrust of sturn and it's going to fly a lot it has to fly a lot so it's going to end up flying several times a day from many different locations in the world and I think there's a pretty good chance that it does Earth toe transport as well because the fastest way to get from one place to another on Earth is you know to get from here to the other side of Earth is an intercontinental ballistic missile but just make sure you delete the nuke and add the Landing part basically it's the fastest way to get somewhere yeah wow and then between flight 1 and two we made a number of massive upgrades so the there was obviously a massive upgrade to the Launchpad so we've got like many Niagara Falls here the water pressure is so much that if it went straight up it would actually destroy the rocket that's how much water pressure it is so it's like wow and it worked like actually went looked at one of the first things I went and looked at after the second launch was to check out the launch pad because obviously after the first launch we dug a pretty big hole and and honestly it looked like you could just it looked like there was no damage at all like the you could just launch a again basically for the the pad itself so it's great work by the team to radically improve the Launchpad overnight people always like when to use the Statue of Liberty for Stuff Statue of Liberty is not that big I was like I was like been there I actually climbed up the Statue of Liberty in the tiny staircase a long time ago but anyway this is a big rocket and will get bigger over time yeah so that's I don't know if you guys watched the Kong versus Godzilla it's like one of the most insane movies I've ever seen but it's like kind of entertaining and it's sheer Madness and the crazy thing is that that a launch Tower is bigger than mechaz and it's going to do basically like the same thing but with the arms you know like catch the rocket and I tell people like yeah we're going to catch the largest flying object ever with giant mechanical arms they're like there's no way that's real I mean we could give it legs too just give it legs and have it tromp around that'd be pretty cool and then we're also going to build a second tower uh yeah this is we're going to really be launching a lot and up and we're going to be upgrading one Tower while we launch from another Tower so so two towers is important and there was there actually so many upgrades between flight 1 and two that it would actually take it like hours to go through them all but one of the biggest upgrades was uh going from uh hydraulic to Electric uh of the engines so that actually uh saved a lot of mass and complexity so yeah the electric TVC I mean it it it was just this is one of the biggest upgrades we also massively upgraded the heat shield the engines themselves were massively upgraded literally everything on the rocket was like there might have been thousands of upgrades between flight 1 and two so really gigantic Improvement between flight one and two and also obviously many improvements between Flight 2 and three and then we've got a whole development plan to like I said ultimately get to a fully reusable rocket that does over 200 tons to orbit on a regular basis full reusability yeah hot staging I mean hot staging was was a change that was basically I don't know just really within a space of like three or four months maybe less going from or roughly that going from previously just separating the rocket without anything to actually lighting the upper stage engines while the first stage engines are still thrusting and not blowing up the ship which is that was an amazing achievement so I was like wow that was and it worked so I was like wow so then look let's look at flight two intentional operators on countdown one this fin the go for flight two of Starship at 7 a.m. Central Raptor one go Raptor 2 Go stage one go stage two go copy go for flight f rolling 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 we have sear so yeah big round of applause guys wow so flight flights actually almost made it to orbit so in fact ironically if if it had a payload it would have made it to orbit because the reason that it actually didn't quite make it to orbit was we vented the liquid oxygen and the liquid oxygen ultimately led to Fire and an and an explosion we wanted to vent the liquid oxygen because we normally wouldn't have that liquid oxygen if we had a payload so ironically if it had a payload it would have reached over it and so I think we've got a really good shot of reaching over it with flight three and then a rapid Cadence to achieve full and rapid reusability and I mean the kind of the mind-blowing thing is like there is an actual path that we are on to make life multiplanetary can you freaking believe that like what we just got to get done before civilization ends but like I think we I think is going to happen yeah right here so anyway so in terms of getting there we want obviously want to accelerate the production and testing um get to a high Cadence uh for any given technology development there it is you know how many iterations do you have and what is the amount of time between each iteration so every time we launch we learn every time we launch or do a test we we learn something more so increasing that Cadence of launching and testing and it's always better to sacrifice Hardware rather than sacrifice time like time is the true the one true currency so the it's sort of the fastest path to as I saying earlier rapidly reusable reliable rocket yeah and we've got yeah a block sort of a version two ship that will be more reliable better performance endurance we've got a version three ship design that will stretch that that be even taller probably end up being I don't know 140 M before it's all said and done maybe 150 in the end in in in length yeah so be even taller than it currently is yeah and so with flight one the goal was not to blow the the pad up and ideally get some distance which we did with flight two it was to get past staging so we achieved the goal of getting past staging and almost to orbit and then flight flight three we've got well we want to get to orbit and we want to do an inspace engine burn from the header tank and prove the that we can reliably deorbit we want to do a Tipping Point a header domain propellant transfer this is important for the NASA autus program and we want to also demonstrate the payload door for for the sort of PE dispenser for delivering the stalling V2 non manyi the actually probably V I guess V3 technically but really the really giant satellites to orbit yeah so like said the mass orbit ultimately of Starship will be you know over time I think millions of tons of of orbit so it's I mean compared to present day Master orbit it'll be more than a thousand times you know more than a thousand times greater than Master orbit currently that's what it will be or it needs to be so we also want to demonstrate on orbit refilling this is very important for the NASA Artemis program so we're very proud to be part of the NASA autus program I'm always incredibly grateful to NASA for their support and for trusting us to do to take astronuts to orbit to trans take kago to the space station and to be an integral part of getting astronuts back to the Moon one of the other questions I get a lot is did we really go to the Moon I've gotten that from a lot of people and I'm like yes we went to the moon more than once in fact but the crazy thing is that it's been over half a century since we last went to the moon so you know that's I think what maybe that's what causes people to be skeptical like how come we can't go to the moon now it was 66 years from the first controlled powered Flight of the R Brothers in 1903 to landing on the moon in ' 69 only 66 years 50 years have passed since we last went to the moon but now we're going to get go back there and we're going to go back there soon and we're not going to go just I think like we wanted the next step I think is to build up a a Moonbase like Moonbase Alpha make sci-fi real not remove the Fire part of sci-fi so but now want but in order to go and land on the moon one of the technical challenges we have to solve is orbital refilling where we dock The Starships dock on orbit and transfer propellant now we've gotten very good at docking because we we dock with dragon to the space station which is actually more complicated than docking with our own spacecraft so we have a lot of expertise in docking so I'm confident we will solve this and we just ideally want to solve it hopefully by the end of this year but certainly by by next year and that that's a big deal this is one of the fundamental Technologies that's necessary to build a city on Mars and to have a Mars a moon base and then yeah we'll also be launching some very big satellites world's biggest PE dispenser and we do hope to do this by the end of this year and then yeah more about the NASA human Landing system so as I said we're extremely grateful to NASA for entrusting us with a fundamental part of the otus program we want to make sure we do a great job for NASA and and really the we like we are a very fundamental part of the the autus program so if we do not succeed which we will but we in order for the automous program to succeed we must succeed with with Starship and like I said we actually want to far ex far exceed what NASA has asked us to do so so the we want to go far beyond the NASA requirements and actually be able to put enough payload on the moon with enough frequency that you could actually have a permanently occupied moon base that's the next really big threshold from Apollo is have have an actual moon base I remember seeing this like I guess kind of cheesy Sci-Fi show long time ago called Moonbase Alpha I don't know if you never seen that but like the moon actually drifts away from Earth now this is not going to happen but but it was a cool show Moonbase Alpha but we need a real Moonbase Alpha and we're going to do it so then yeah as I was saying this is the long-term goal this is what we want Mars to look like Starships coming and going an incredible beautiful Mars City and a flourishing civil ation on Mars and you know ultimately we can transform Mars into an earthlike planet with terraforming just needs to be warmed up really and then you could it could be ultimately an earthlike planet and we could bring the life from Earth we could extend life from Earth to Mars and really it has to be you know has to be humans I you cuz it's not going to be the Dolphins but we can bring all the creatures with us and we can ensure that life on Earth continues on Mars even after Earth becomes unlivable in the distant future so anyway I'll go to questions

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