Musk plans to develop the strongest spacecraft: Starworld 2.0? It is expected to send 1 million people to Mars!

Recently, Musk, the world's richest man, revealed the next version of spacex's starship, which is called the most powerful spaceship on Earth, also known as Starship 2.0!

We know that Spacex is a high-tech company controlled by Elon Musk that currently operates what may be the most powerful private launch vehicle, the Falcon Heavy, while still having one of the most active rockets in operation, while the Falcon 9 regularly puts payloads into orbit for private companies, including government entities such as itself and the U.S. military. In fact, SpaceX is also a close launch partner for NASA to deliver cargo and people to the International Space Station, Sspacex has played an important role in NASA's lunar landings and other missions, and Musk has done things that even many state-run companies can't do with the strength of a private company.

Not only that, but having the most powerful private rocket hasn't stopped Musk from achieving bigger dreams, and as mentioned earlier, SpaceX is currently developing a new type of spacecraft that will allow Musk to achieve his biggest dream. Musk has done what many people can't do, and his biggest goal is to build a colony on Mars, to permanently place people on Mars, which is not an easy task, because the program requires about 1 million people to be transported from Earth to Mars, but you can't just throw a million people into the harsh environment of Mars, you have to prepare the environment before they arrive. This requires tons of cargo to provide everything needed, including life support systems and food tools.

What's more, there's no spacecraft that can take people from Earth to Mars, let alone the sheer amount of cargo Musk has to move, but he's done it to show many people the potential of a huge rocket that NASA wants to use to send American astronauts to the moon, and the Pentagon can use it to transport military cargo around the world in minutes. Astronomers and satellite companies are looking at its potential. And now that the new spacecraft has attracted the attention of the whole world, what kind of surprises will this new type of scientific and technological machine bring us?

According to Musk, the holy grail starship, which he calls space technology, is taller than the Statue of Liberty, which is about 46 meters high, while the vertical launch height of the starship is about 121 meters, which is also higher than Saturn 5. Starship is designed to be about twice as powerful as Saturn 5 and 10 meters wider in diameter than other orbiting spacecraft, which will allow it to carry large amounts of cargo or many people into orbit at the same time.

The starship will then be located on a towering rocket booster called Super Heavy, however, once the two parts of the spacecraft are out of the Earth's atmosphere, as the starship continues to orbit the Earth, the two parts separate at the edge of space, and the super heavy booster that helped it fly off the ground will return to land near the launch pad, but the booster itself will not land, because a huge tower equipped with a mechanical arm, Musk calls chopsticks, which can grab the falling rocket and land gently. Shortly before landing, starships will also return to Earth's atmosphere from one side of it. Starship will then restart its engines to maintain a steady vertical flip for a soft landing, and will be caught in chopsticks even before The Starship's first orbital test flight.

Musk said the new spacecraft will undergo a lot of upgrades. SpaceX, for example, has been developing rocket engines known as the Raptor to provide thrust to Starship. SpaceX is now developing next-generation versions of these engines, offering greater thrust, easier installation to produce, and lower manufacturing costs. Regarding the new Raptor, Musk also revealed that the new engine will not be called the Raptor Space X. He also revealed that it will increase the number of Raptor engines on Starship and super-heavy boosters, which will increase the total payload of the spacecraft, which can be raised from about 100 tons to more than 150 tons.

The company employs a different approach to rocket manufacturing, enabling it to build at a rapid pace. It tests the entire prototype, not individual components. In January, the U.S. Air Force allocated $102 million to research the use of spacex spacecraft as cargo ships that could deploy resources around the world in minutes, or conduct peer-to-peer transportation. Possibly, starships will be launched into orbit and re-enter orbit in minutes, taking a fraction of the time it takes to deliver humanitarian or military cargo in a particular area than a traditional military aircraft, and of course, the legitimacy and logistics of the concept are the only issues that need to be addressed.

Before Musk revealed the new Starship, there was also the cost issue, Musk revealed that the cost of each Starship launch may be as low as $2 million compared to the Falcon 9, which costs about $62 million each, so imagine what the new, larger, more powerful Starship 2.0 will look like, and there is no other way to stop it. Musk revealed that this version will be 18 meters in diameter, twice the 9-meter version that his company is developing. The original design of Starship was 12 meters in diameter before it was reduced, which means that Musk will make the rocket even larger.

However, the key point of making rockets is that after doubling the diameter, the rocket will follow the proportional diameter and must adjust the height, for example, Spacex has to double the current height, which is currently 120 meters. This means that Starship 2.0, at an altitude of 240 meters, will produce a 9-fold volume increase, the new height is the same as the popular Woolworth Building in New York, three-quarters of the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, according to this calculation, Starship 2.0 may raise about 1,000 tons of payload per launch. If Spacex had kept Starship's original size, it could have lifted 300 tons of payload per launch, but this massive upgrade would have more than tripled its initial carrying capacity, and of course, Starship 2.0 would require more and stronger Raptor engines to do just that.

What's even more frightening is that Musk plans to reduce the cost of each Raptor engine to about $200,000, far below the current cost of about $2 million. The most powerful rocket ever conceived is the Sea Dragon designed by Robert Trux in the 1990s, which is 150 meters high and can launch a 550-ton payload at a time, but it didn't happen, while Starship 2.0 was going to be achieved, and the data was stronger than the Sea Dragon. A powerful rocket this month could accelerate Musk's Mars program and solve some logistical challenges, such as the current starship can transport about 100 people at a time, which will require about 10,000 trips to reach his goal of 1 million colonists. However, if 2.0 is used, he can transport 800 to 1000 people at a time, greatly reducing the number of trips required.

In addition to this, Starship 2.0 can transport some cargo that cannot be decomposed. For example, building a shelter on Mars will require heavy equipment, such as crane bulldozers that will not be easy to disassemble and reassemble other equipment, which will generate the fuel needed for the return journey and will have to be transported from Earth, so what do you think about Musk Starship 2.0? Do you think Musk's dream of colonizing Mars really comes true? Feel free to leave your point of view!