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Starbase production site gets expansion called Starfactory, which should help SpaceX plans make at least one mega-missile per day.
The cost of construction of Starfactory, which will occupy 9,290 sq. m of Starbase factory premises, reaches $100 million.
After the extremely successful fourth test flight of Starship (both stages were able to splash down), Kate Tice, manager of SpaceX's Quality Systems Engineering Department, announced plans to produce one such rocket per day and the upcoming release of Starship Version 2 from the production line.
Starbase with a new part of Starfactory ahead. Photo: New Atlas
Starship Version 2 is designed for easier and more mass production (specifically at the new Starfactory) and is rumored to contain more fuel, have a lower dry weight (without fuel), as well as be more reliable and have some aerodynamic changes (in particular, in the fins – one of these, as you remember, actually melted during the fourth flight).
Note, a newer version of Starship has the forward flaps shifted leeward. This will help improve reliability, ease of manufacturing and payload to orbit.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 6, 2024
This timelapse shows the construction of the Starfactory in May:
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Time-lapse of a Siller Helicopter, nicknamed «StarChopper» by the @NASASpaceflight Starbase Live Chat, delivering multiple A/C units to the roof of the Starfactory for installation. S30 can be seen in the back moving into the High Bay.
Follow along Live: https://t.co/wTIGOIV9NO pic.twitter.com/7AGSoAfokg— Elisar Priel (@ENNEPS) May 11, 2024
For Elon Musk, Starship in the future is a spacecraft that will transport people to Mars, and NASA primarily hopes to use it as a lunar lander that will deliver astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time since 1972. In the near term, SpaceX also plans to use Starship to deploy the next generation of Starlink internet satellites.
Starship will eventually have to do quite a few more test flights (Musk has announced no less than 6 in 2024 alone) before real work can begin (including meeting the goal of landing both stages on the launch pad), however, in general, all four flights (and especially the last one) can be called successful – now we are waiting for an analysis of the data received from the SpaceX team.
Jesse Anderson, engineering manager for SpaceX's Falcon Structures Manufacturing, announced that the vehicles and boosters for the next test have also been built.
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