{"id":87925,"date":"2019-02-18T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/elon-musk-believes-super-heavy-starship-will-eventually-be-built-for-less-than-falcon-9"},"modified":"2019-02-18T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:22:59","slug":"elon-musk-believes-super-heavy-starship-will-eventually-be-built-for-less-than-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/elon-musk-believes-super-heavy-starship-will-eventually-be-built-for-less-than-falcon-9","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Believes Super Heavy Starship Will Eventually Be Built for Less than Falcon 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-believes-super-heavy-starship-will-eventually-be-built-for-less-than-falcon-92.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk believes there is a path for the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) to be built for less than a Falcon 9. Currently, a single use SpaceX Falcon 9 can be purchased for about $62 million. The estimates for the cost of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) are about $250 to 400 million.<\/p>\n<p>The current design of the SpaceX SHS has 38 Raptor engines. There are 31 Raptor engines in the Super Heavy booster and seven in the Starship upper stage. There are 9 Merlin engines in the SpaceX Falcon 9.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>This will sound implausible, but I think there\u2019s a path to build Starship \/ Super Heavy for less than Falcon 9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/02\/elon-musk-believes-super-heavy-starship-will-eventually-be-built-for-less-than-falcon-9.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/02\/elon-musk-believes-sup...con-9.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk believes there is a path for the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) to be built for less than a Falcon 9. Currently, a single use SpaceX Falcon 9 can be purchased for about $62 million. The estimates for the cost of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) are about $250 to 400 million. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87925","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\/87925","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}