The point
Starship
Fully reusable two-stage stainless steel. Super Heavy plus Ship. Raptor burns methane because Mars has carbon and ice. The vehicle is the program: tanker, lunar lander, city-class payload.
Why it exists
If the cost per ton to orbit does not fall by an order of magnitude, Mars is a slide deck.
Specifications
- Stacked height
- ~124 m
- Diameter
- 9 m
- Booster engines
- 33 × Raptor
- Ship engines
- 6 × Raptor
- Propellant
- LOX / CH4
- LEO (reusable)
- 100–150 t
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Recovery
- Chopstick catch
Manifest
