STARSHIP: The FUTURE of Rocketry

    Hey everyone! The RocketKid here and today, we'll do a rundown of the upcoming monster rocket being developed by SpaceX, STARSHIP. Let's get started.

    So, the Starship started out in 2011 when Musk presented the idea of the Mars Colonial transporter, it was never finished and didn't even have a render of it except a fan render:

(This seems like it was made in KSP, doesn't it?)

    Then, the ITS was introduced in 2016. This was a monster of a rocket, towering over even the tallest of building in most places in the world, towering over the Saturn V, towering over SLS, towering over, ok fine I'll stop. Anyways, It was a beast with more than 40 raptor engines on it, the design looked like this:

    With a payload capacity of 300 METRIC TONNES into orbit and a 12-meter diameter, plus a 122-meter height? You get some real power. Also a thrust of 128 mega-newtons. Also, the plans for reuse were different too, the booster was going to land exactly on the launchpad, so it could just be refueled, loaded with another upper stage, and go again. But, this posed some problems, the SpaceX team just didn't have the software to guide the rocket to a perfect point, like me when I try that in KSP. 

    So, after that, there was a design for the BFR or the Big Falcon Rocket. In 2018 the Dear Moon project also changed the design of the BFR, it went from this:

To this:

    The rocket's height shrank too, from 122 meters to only 118 meters, still taller than any rocket in history, with more thrust than any other rocket in history. With more rocket engines than any rocket in- sorry.  Of course, the payload capability went down with it, but we are still talking more than 100 metric tonnes to orbit here! Even if the Saturn V had more capability to send more to EARTH orbit, BFR/Starship can send more to the moon thanks to the refueling capabilities.

    After that, the material made the switch to stainless steel, before all the rest was carbon fiber, very expensive. Then in 2019, it became the Starship we see today. (Kind of)

Who knows how Starship will evolve AGAIN in the future. We'll have to wait and see!!

This is the RocketKid, signing off!