{"id":85628,"date":"2018-12-09T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-teases-new-starship-photos-and-heavy-metal-bfr"},"modified":"2018-12-09T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:22:41","slug":"spacex-ceo-elon-musk-teases-new-starship-photos-and-heavy-metal-bfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-teases-new-starship-photos-and-heavy-metal-bfr","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teases new Starship photos and \u201cheavy metal\u201d BFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-teases-new-starship-photos-and-heavy-metal-bfr.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawn in by Teslarati photographer Pauline Acalin\u2019s most recent photos of Port of LA Falcon 9 recovery operations SpaceX is in the midst of, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on December 8th to discuss titanium grid fins and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 answer a miscellaneous handful of questions about the status of BFR\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Marked lately by rapid-fire, wide-reaching changes to BFR\u2019s general structural composite, Musk at long last confirmed what some suspected \u2013 now known as Starship\/Super Heavy, the BFR program has officially moved away from carbon fiber composites as the primary material of choice for the rocket\u2019s structure and propellant tanks, instead pivoting to what Musk described as a \u201cfairly heavy metal\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>But cool pics of the demo Starship that will fly suborbital hops coming in ~4 weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-elon-musk-new-starship-photos-heavy-metal-bfr\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-elon-musk-new-starship-photos-heavy-metal-bfr\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawn in by Teslarati photographer Pauline Acalin\u2019s most recent photos of Port of LA Falcon 9 recovery operations SpaceX is in the midst of, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on December 8th to discuss titanium grid fins and \u2013 more importantly \u2013 answer a miscellaneous handful of questions about the status of BFR\u2019s development. [\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-85628","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\/85628","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=85628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}