Elon Musk on Starship today:"The fundamental breakthrough of Starship is that it will be the first orbital rocket that is fully reusable, so this might sound like an obvious thing, but because in every other mode of transport, whether that's aircraft, cars, bicycles, horses, ships, these are all we take it for granted that they are reusable, an aircraft journey would be very expensive if you had to throw the plane away every time, and that's how rockets have been in the past, but it's very diffi

Elon Musk says steel killed carbon fiber on Starship at one-fiftieth the cost.Carbon fiber was supposed to be the future of rocketry.Lighter than aluminum. Stronger than steel. Trusted by every Formula 1 team.SpaceX picked it for Starship."Particularly if you go for a high-strength specialized carbon fiber that can handle cryogenic oxygen, it's roughly 50 times the cost of steel."Then progress stalled.The autoclaves needed to cure the resin had to outsize every autoclave on Earth, and the team c