{"id":96774,"date":"2019-09-28T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/watch-elon-musk-give-a-design-update-on-spacexs-next-generation-starship-rocket"},"modified":"2019-09-28T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:25:25","slug":"watch-elon-musk-give-a-design-update-on-spacexs-next-generation-starship-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/watch-elon-musk-give-a-design-update-on-spacexs-next-generation-starship-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elon Musk give a design update on SpaceX\u2019s next-generation Starship rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sOpMrVnjYeY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/webcast\">SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will give an update<\/a> on the design and future of his company\u2019s next-generation rocket, Starship, a massive vehicle that is meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The concept for Starship has evolved in numerous ways over the last few years, and now Musk plans to reveal the vehicle\u2019s latest blueprints.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is giving an hour-long presentation on the rocket at SpaceX\u2019s test facility in Boca Chica, Texas, a tiny town just north of the Mexican border. SpaceX has been building lots of test hardware for Starship at the site, and the CEO will likely be surrounded by this shiny material during his talk. As you watch, keep an eye out for a large Starship test vehicle that\u2019s meant to perform high-altitude test flights in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear exactly what Musk will discuss. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1174045530227445761?s=20\">He mentioned on Twitter<\/a> that this talk is \u201cmostly a design update for those interested,\u201d though he might touch on the longer-term plans for Starship, as well. The discussion will get underway at 8PM ET; here\u2019s what you need to know before the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will give an update on the design and future of his company\u2019s next-generation rocket, Starship, a massive vehicle that is meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The concept for Starship has evolved in numerous ways over the last few years, and now Musk plans to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2019,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-elon-musk","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96774","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=96774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}