500 Raptors a Year: What will SpaceX and Elon Musk do with them?
In June Elon Musk said that SpaceX will soon be producing 500 of the new Raptor rocket engines a year. Since Starship and SuperHeavy together use only about 40 Raptors, it leads to a big question: What will SpaceX do with all of them?
00:26 - Elon’s Tweet
01:10 - What’s the Raptor
02:47 - Starship/SuperHeavy
04:35 - SS/SH Ratio
06:46 - Starship 2.0
08:47 - Economics
10:47 - Starlink
13:00 - Moon & Mars
The short answers are: Lots of Starships, Starship 2.0, Starlink, the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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