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Perhaps I am reading too much into it - I'm no insider! - but the original 100-tons-to-Mars "ITS" proposal called for a rocket 12 meters in diameter, quite a bi
by marssaxman 3y ago
Perhaps I am reading too much into it - I'm no insider! - but the original 100-tons-to-Mars "ITS" proposal called for a rocket 12 meters in diameter, quite a bit larger than the current 9-meter Starship; then Elon Musk made some tweet back in 2019 after the Starhopper test suggesting that the "next gen system" would actually be 18 meters wide.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1166856662336102401 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1166856662336102401
I can't find anything about any of this on spacex.com. Maybe they've changed the plan or maybe they're just not thinking so much about Mars colonization lately, who knows.
- rtkwe 3y agoHe's been much more consistent about "Starship" to Mars than a single tweet about a "next-gen". Maybe they are but Starship is what they're currently saying will take people to Mars and he's said that for a while.