The Evolution Of The SpaceX Starship | Answers With Joe

The SpaceX Starship is in its 4th iteration and is officially entering the testing phase with the production of the Mark 1 prototype that was unveiled on Sept. 28th 2019. Today we look at the history of the Starship and look at the design changes that have occurred along the way.

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2016 -
SpaceX CEO Musk unveiled details of the space mission architecture, launch vehicle, spacecraft, and Raptor engines that power the vehicles at the 67th International Astronautical Congress on September 27, 2016.

Full Presentation:

SpaceX 2016 animation

2017 presentation

Earth-to-Earth video:

2018 presentation and Dear Moon announcement

2019 presentation

[Psycorde]

My favorite version of the Starship is one that reaches Mars

[maxk]

"Go into something easy like water tower design, " they said. "It's not like it's rocket science, " they said....

[frankmedrisch]

“Barring any major disasters”

Coronavirus: somebody said my name?

[PRSteve]

"2019 was kinda crazy" - oh, just you wait, 2019, Joe. Just you wait.

[billionai]

"2019 was kinda crazy"

- Joe, before seeing 2020

[wh.tf_]

"barring any major disasters were kinda looking at that." the irony

[Morpholaf]

I love how the rocket ships more and more resemble the sci-fi pocket book cover art from the 50's and 60's :)

[StoneCoolds]

Elon is already inspiring humanity, he literally made me feel like a kid full of dreams again
Before him i had this feeling space travel was dead and about to be shut down

[ryandavis]

Elon has sparked up a love of space again, since 1969. I'm pullin for him.

[somewherenorthofstarbase]

Joe, they decided to go with ceramic tiles for the heat shield for the Starship re-entry. A heat-shield like the Space Shuttle, but more rugged and thinner ceramic tiles, and hence less weight of ceramic tiles, and thus less weight of the overall vehicle compared to lighter carbon composite that needs thicker heavier tiles.

[marccantlin]

Starship evolution? I’m so old I remember when it was Jefferson Airplane!!

[martinjpiana]

Joe - “ 2019 was kind of crazy “
2020 - “hold my beer!”

[glaucousgrey]

Fun fact of the day: Youtube algorithm still recognizes the classic censor *beep* as a curse word!

[Brownyman]

These prequel episodes of "The Expanse" are getting wicked good!

[codguy]

5:50 I think you might have made a mistake, that booster had a LOT more than 13, 000lb's of thrust at takeoff. 42 Raptor engines with ~450, 000lb of thrust each = 18.9 million lb of thrust.

[antonnym]

BEST Channel on youtube! Thank you for consistently bringing it! I'm a mars NUT. I've studied the planet for 51 years now (I'm 59) and always love this stuff. I'm excited about selection for landing sites, as well. All good wishes!

[nasanction]

I like the Stainless Steel and the fat shape. Takes us all the way back to Flash Gordon! lol...

[zachm]

"2019 was kinda crazy"

Laughs in 2020

[davecasey]

If Elon achieves only half of what he wants, he will go down as one of the greatest visionaries of our time.

[LEDewey_MD]

Nice presentation! So good to be excited about space travel again!