{"id":166397,"date":"2023-06-25T14:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/musk-outlines-major-upgrades-for-starship-rocket"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:37:59","slug":"musk-outlines-major-upgrades-for-starship-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/musk-outlines-major-upgrades-for-starship-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Musk outlines major upgrades for Starship rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-outlines-major-upgrades-for-starship-rocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will need another six weeks or so to finish implementing hundreds of changes to its Super Heavy-Starship rocket and the gargantuan booster\u2019s Texas launch pad before it will be ready for a second attempt to reach orbit, company founder Elon Musk said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s assuming Federal Aviation Administration clearance to fly in the wake of the Super Heavy\u2019s dramatic maiden launch April 20 in which the rocket blew itself up after multiple engine failures and the Starship upper stage\u2019s failure to separate from the first stage booster.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter Spaces discussion with author Ashlee Vance, Musk said SpaceX is implementing \u201cwell over a thousand\u201d changes,\u201d and \u201cI think the probability of this next flight working, getting to orbit, is much higher than the last one. Maybe it\u2019s like 60 percent. It depends on how well we do at stage separation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX will need another six weeks or so to finish implementing hundreds of changes to its Super Heavy-Starship rocket and the gargantuan booster\u2019s Texas launch pad before it will be ready for a second attempt to reach orbit, company founder Elon Musk said Saturday. That\u2019s assuming Federal Aviation Administration clearance to fly in the wake [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}