Elon Musk Tweets The Newest Image Of The Starship’s Prototype Version

Jyotis - Dec 25, 2018

SpaceX has broken its own record with more than 20 launches in 2018; however, this seems not to be enough for Elon Musk. His company has kept setting up more efficient and more quality plans to meet the demands in the future. At the beginning moments of December 24^th, the SpaceX’s CEO showed off the newest image of the Starship’s prototype version that has been built.

Last month, Elon Musk turned his Big Falcon Rocket (“BFR” for short) into “Starship”, the name with more classic factors. With the huge rocket, SpaceX has had a plan to bring humans to the outer space, maybe to the Mars or Moon, or let them travel on super-fast international flights in the space.

Musk’s photo has revealed something exciting concerning the latest rocket’s scale. As we have known, SpaceX has declared that the rocket will sport a larger dimension and more power than NASA’s Saturn V Moon rocket which launched Apollo astronauts on a trajectory to the moon. What attracted watchers the most in his photo is a tremendous nose cone that makes trucks appear to be much smaller than they are in reality.

On his Twitter, Musk set a short caption for the picture, uncovering that material used to manufacture the rocket prototype is stainless steel. For those unknown, this prototype version has been under construction at the test facility of SpaceX. According to the CEO, this kind of steel is said to offer higher quality over carbon fiber material with lighter weight at high temperatures. This has been confirmed in the last tests.

Another revelation from Elon Musk is that the Starship rocket’s skin will be so hot that painting on it is absolutely impossible and SpaceX will add a “stainless mirror finish” to create the “maximum reflectivity.”

As expected, the company will launch the Starship version on trial next year. It hopes that space flights must be two-way ones; that means the rocket can fly to the outer space and come back to the landing. Also, there will be three latest Raptor engines manufactured by SpaceX applied in these test flights.