Musk allowed the cost of launching cargo into orbit to be reduced by more than 100 times

The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, suggested that using the Starship rocket system would reduce the cost of launching cargo into orbit by more than 100 times. He expressed this opinion on November 6 in an interview with entrepreneur Ron Baron, which was posted on the YouTube channel of Tesla investor Matt Potsius.

"I think we can reduce the cost of putting cargo into orbit to less than $100 per kg," Musk said.

American entrepreneur explained, what decline costs It will become possible thanks to full Reusability Starship. In present time SpaceX uses Falcon 9, at which one after startup is returning only the first degree, but the second, by costs comparable with average passenger by plane, It gets lost.

New system Starship provides for repeat usage everyone The main ones elements, what in perspective will allow launch accelerator Super Heavy approximately once in hour and realize before 10 thous. starts annually, the billionaire explained.

According to Musk, through Two or three years conclusion goods on the orbit can Make do cheaper, than his air transportation from California in Australia.

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On September 28, SpaceX launched a new generation Starship rocket into its first orbital flight, launching from the Starbase complex in Texas. The unmanned system with a height of about 40 floors includes a Super Heavy accelerator and a Starship ship. Later that day, the spacecraft exploded upon landing on water. The spacecraft took an upright position and began to sink into the ocean. When its engines sank into the water, an explosion occurred, fragments of the device flew apart, and a mushroom cloud of fire appeared above the dive site.