SpaceX reveals plans for a second Starbase! What's needed to build 1000 Starships?

Today, I'm going to tackle a beast of a question! Let’s talk about the future of Starbase! What’s needed to build a rocket bigger than the Saturn V Moon rocket… 1000 times? Let’s do this!

Editing: Stefanie Schlang
Photography: Kevin Randolph

SpaceX 3D Creation Eccentric on Patreon!

Credit:

⭐SpaceX
⭐NASA
⭐RGV Aerial Photography on Twitter: @RGVaerialphotos
⭐RGV Aerial Photography on YouTube: @RGVAerialPhotography
⭐Ryan Hansen Space on Twitter: @RyanHansenSpace
⭐SpaceX 3D Creation Eccentric on Twitter: @Bl3D_Eccentric
⭐SpaceX 3D Creation Eccentric on YouTube: @Spacex3DCreationEccentric
⭐C-bass Productions on YouTube: @CbassProductions
⭐Caspar Stanley on Twitter: @Caspar_Stanley
⭐Race To Orbit on YouTube: @alexrex7382
⭐Race to Orbit on Twitter: @RaceOrbit
⭐IamVisual on YouTube: @iamVisualVFX
⭐Nick Henning on YouTube: @NickHenning3D
⭐Nick Henning on Twitter: @nickhenning3d

✔️Twitter: @FelixSchlang

📄Links for this Episode:

[stainlesssteelfox]

Actually, the $7500 price is unfair, as that assumes you're carrying 100 tons of passengers or 1333 passengers on a single flight. Now the payload volume is around 890 m^3, and a 747 has a main deck volume of around 700 m^3 and seats around 450 passengers. So 500 passengers or 37.5 tons of passenger would probably be closer for a mass transit version.

So the actual price for economy passage to LEO would be closer to $20, 000 per passenger. That's still ridiculously cheap, not much higher than twice what a long haul first class seat on a conventional airliner costs. If they can use some of the spare mass for paying cargo, the price could be reduced even further.

[Nainara]

I mean, if you're comparing aspirational costs, the space shuttle was originally estimated to be $260/kg. We'll just have to wait and see what starship really looks like after it's been in production for a few years.

[marcusj]

It would be great if SpaceX used the Starship to build an orbiting shipyard to build larger more powerful space ships for interstellar travel.

[Alexander-qzpx]

Live cargo needs a lot of support systems, density will be lower and costs higher. They mentioned at least space for 100 people earlier, that would be 20k/person if 2mio /launch is accurate. In the long term <10k/Person seems not totally unreasonable if plans for future generations work out.

[willtinsley]

The purpose of a reusable 1st stage is that you won’t need nearly as many boosters as they need starships. Maybe 10%?

[garyhorner]

Hopefully the rocket fuel providers can keep up with the demand of launching just 2 Starships and boosters per day. Seems like a lot of trucks are lined up and waiting to fill those huge tanks just for pressure checks and static tests. Haven't read any words about how much LOX the production facility at Baco Chica can output, if its even working yet.

[scofield]

*MSaylorhigh* Telegramma.

Buon lavoro amico. Ultimamente, quando sono state richieste previsioni su bitcoin e criptovalute in generale, alla maggior parte degli esperti su YouTube e altri media, le previsioni sono per lo più generiche senza specifiche sulla direzione. Tutti sembrano indovinare e diventare ancora più confusi riguardo al futuro. L'unica cosa costante che posso dire con certezza è che i trader stanno effettivamente guadagnando buoni rendimenti mentre gli HOdler sono sempre preoccupati per cosa riserva il futuro per bitcoin o se c'è anche un futuro. Con l'intuizione, le capacità e l'esperienza di un trader come Michael Saylor, il cielo è il limite. Sono arrivato a questa consapevolezza quando ho realizzato un ritorno sull'investimento dell'87% nel mio primo mese utilizzando i suoi segnali per le mie operazioni. Per non sembrare di parte, ci sono molti BUONI trader là fuori, ma Michael mi è stato di immenso aiuto, specialmente con i suoi segnali e strategie.

[commerce-usa]

Felix, love the numbers. We live in an incredible time. Can't wait to see this all come to pass. Great job as usual! 👍

[LaunchRecap]

@6:15 there is a typo in the top left corner. it says RGC aerial photography while it should say RGV. just letting you know. :) love the content btw. really great stuff.

[brucebennett]

Your narrative makes the BEST summary of the wonder of what's happening down there at Boca Chica!

[thespacepeacock]

Think a mistake might have slipped in at 3:12 Felix! SpaceX does infact reuse Falcon 9 fairings, only the second stage is expended :)

[bikkyghaisai]

Thank you for down to earth explanation of Starship and its location.

[caribbeanman]

5:27 No. That's not where the equator is. It definitely does not run through Central America. It's further south. It runs through Ecuador (which is Spanish for Equator). ESA has a launch facility in French Guiana which is actually still a few 100 miles north of the Equator, but I think it's the closest launch facility to the equator in the Western Hemisphere. The actual position of the equator is shown at 5:45

[lancasterhypnotherapy]

I look forward to your videos every week Felix. Very exciting to finally see the space industry maturing towards the colonization of our Moon and Mars.

[dunichtich]

One thing I want to point out is, that you won't need 1000 Super Heavy Boosters to launch 1000 Starships, when the booster is fully and rapidly reusable ;). You will only need 10 boosters, if you can launch each of them 10 times a day.

[rodschmidt]

I don't suppose that 1000 starships over 10 years equals 100 per year, because there will be fewer at first and more later. That curve might be exponential or it might be linear, depending on how fast they build starship factories.

[richb]

The FAA and the FCC are going to have a very large part in the timeline of Starship. Likely they will slow down progress to some degree.

[toddbrewer]

Way too good of a video. This is perhaps one of your best ones yet!!! Great information. Thanks!

[oscarvpp]

Your videos are so great! Thank you so much for making them, hope you'll have a wonderful week!

[alexrex]

Great video! Thanks for including my graphics :)