Elon Musk: New SPACEX Updates for 2022

SpaceX will start in 2022 with their most ambitious endeavor yet, putting a spacecraft into orbit and returning safely to Earth. By the end of 2022, it will have been done more than once to prove a point, with a launch and landing frequency of once every two weeks. There is a lot to do in that short amount of time, but if it pays off, SpaceX will be able to do pretty much anything they want in space— fly to the moon, fly to Mars, put a Cybertruck on the surface of Europa, and so on. The potential of SpaceX in the coming years is so far beyond anything we have ever seen before; it is almost like science fiction come true.

In this video, we will see why SpaceX is capable to overcome humanity’s single greatest obstacle and make life multi-planetary.

In the Q&A session with Elon Musk at the CEO Council Summit, Elon Musk has been treading a fine line between making people excited about the future and conceding that this undertaking will be difficult. Elon answered to a query about the progress of the spacecraft. "Starship is a hard, hard, hard, hard project," he said, because it aims to be a fully reusable super heavy lift rocket that can not only deliver massive amounts of payload to Earth's orbit but also to other planets in our solar system, and even transport large crews of people, preferably 20, to the moon and mars, and return them home—all with a two-stage rocket that is 100 percent reusable with no refurbishment time in between. He came to the conclusion that the project is absurdly complex, even questioning whether they can complete it. He also confesses that for now, spaceship is absorbing more mental energy than anything else.

Elon is taking this very seriously. In fact, in late November, a highly scathing communication from him to the SpaceX team was leaked. In his note, he stated that the company's raptor engine manufacturing was in jeopardy, and he predicted the worst, presuming SpaceX can figure out how to produce a significant supply of trustworthy engines. "If we don't accomplish a Starship flight rate of once every two weeks next year, we face a genuine risk of bankruptcy," Elon Musk said. The raptors are so important to the starships because the very heavy booster that launches the ships into space with its 100-ton cargo requires 33 of these engines to attain maximum capacity, plus six more on the second stage of the starship. As to our knowledge, a few of explosive failures are possible before SpaceX can successfully land both the launcher and the ship. Hundreds of raptors could be scrapped if the process is as tough as Elon has predicted. To be completely reusable, a starship must be enormous in size. As a result, SpaceX will require a large number of engines to support the starship's massive size.