{"id":87303,"date":"2019-02-01T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/in-new-starship-details-musk-reveals-a-more-practical-approach"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:02:53","slug":"in-new-starship-details-musk-reveals-a-more-practical-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/in-new-starship-details-musk-reveals-a-more-practical-approach","title":{"rendered":"In new Starship details, Musk reveals a more practical approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-new-starship-details-musk-reveals-a-more-practical-approach.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1091154222173712384\">Musk said<\/a>, \u201cInitially making one 200 metric ton thrust engine common across ship &amp; booster to reach the Moon as fast as possible. Next versions will split to vacuum-optimized (380+ sec Isp) &amp; sea-level thrust optimized (~250 ton).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comment is notable for a couple of reasons. First of all, the company appears to have decided to streamline the Raptor engine to a single design that will power both the rocket at liftoff, and the spaceship in the upper atmosphere and outer space. It will take less time to develop, test, and qualify a single engine. It will also cost less money.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Musk notes that the goal is \u201cto reach the Moon as fast as possible.\u201d The company still appears to be focused on lunar orbital flights, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/09\/nasa-isnt-going-to-pay-for-the-bfr-so-musk-charts-a-new-course\/\">#dearMoon project<\/a> for Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa, as the first missions for Starship.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/02\/spacex-simplifying-mars-rocket-design-aiming-toward-lunar-tests-first\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/02\/spacex-simplifying-m...sts-first\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For example, Musk said, \u201cInitially making one 200 metric ton thrust engine common across ship &amp; booster to reach the Moon as fast as possible. Next versions will split to vacuum-optimized (380+ sec Isp) &amp; sea-level thrust optimized (~250 ton).\u201d This comment is notable for a couple of reasons. First of all, the company appears [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303","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=87303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}