, Musk claimed that his space company's massive Starship spacecraft is "designed to traverse our entire solar system and beyond to the cloud of objects surrounding us," likely referring to the giant spherical shell called the Oort Cloud that surrounds the solar system.
Despite the anticlimactic end, the launch was deemed a big success, marking a new milestone for the space company in its efforts to develop its super-heavy launch platform. Naturally, the mercurial CEO took this week's launch as an opportunity to offer up some characteristically — and perhaps overly — ambitious timelines., which will involve a Starship taking astronauts from the Moon's orbit down to the surface, was originally slated for 2025, but was
For starters, Starship still needs to be able to reliably get into orbit and make it back to the ground in one piece, which is easier said than done considering it dwarfs the company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.while in Earth's orbit. SpaceX also has to develop a life support system for longer journeys through the solar system, let alone find a way to