SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just revealed NEW Starship factory shocked Scientists and others...

CEO Elon Musk has just shared a slideshow from a recent SpaceX all-hands meeting, revealing the company's current priorities, sources of pride, and the first official renders of a few future projects, especially the future of Starship factories. What does it look like? How massive? Let's find out about this interesting subject in today's episode of SpaceX Fans. Elon Musk is planning something big for SpaceX, and it's a future mission of the company that he still talks about multi-planetary life that they would fulfill for humans in coming years. He stressed establishing a new colony on Mars to save the Earth from its future devastation. He believes that going to multiple planets and having people live on another place like Mars would expand the scope and scale of consciousness. Humanity is life's steward, as no other species can transport life to Mars. We can't let them down, Musk tweeted. His plan for the future is to build more than 1,000 Starship spacecraft to transport humans to Mars and build a colony on the planet. The tech CEO calls this the modern Noah's Arks, vessels that would save humans from catastrophe and bring them to a new world while the home planet is healing. Well, the amount of 1,000 spacecraft is certainly not small, so Elon Musk definitely has his rocket manufacturing strategy to make the unimaginable a reality. Last weekend, Musk shared the first official render of a pair of next-generation Starship factories that SpaceX has already begun building. According to Musk's slide deck, this is the future of Starbase Texas' existing Starship factory. Let's see, this is the current progress. SpaceX is both expanding its existing Starship factory and replacing the three main sprung structures or tents, where most pre-stacking work has been done for the last two years, with a single massive permanent building. Notably, the skeleton of the building appears to be closer to 40 or 50 feet tall instead of the 60 feet predicted, short enough that it likely won't allow SpaceX to increase the height of the different sections of stacked steel rings that make up most of Starship and Super Heavy. It's possible that another level will be added for utilities and bridge cranes, but the framework currently being installed will likely cap the height of Starship sections at five standard rings, 9 millimeters, 30 feet tall. It's not impossible that yet-to-be-constructed sections of the new factory would be taller, but that would run counter to SpaceX's established method of production in which Starship sections move through multiple tents throughout assembly and fitting. Next, this is Florida's upcoming Starship factory, center and right. At a new rapidly growing SpaceX facility located on NASA Kennedy Space Center property, the company is simultaneously building a second next-generation Starship factory to supply multiple planned Florida launch sites with their own Starships and Super Heavy boosters. In the video, we also have a view of the first orbital flight prototype, Ship 24 and Booster 7. A few days ago, Musk confirmed that Ship 24 has passed its first cryogenic-proof or cryo-proof test. Now, Ship 24 has been lifted and mounted on the suborbital pad A in preparation for thrust simulation test. That's why we have possible closure on Monday, June 6. If not, we have two alternative dates, Tuesday, June 7 and Wednesday, June 8. If or when Ship 24 passes that test or test, SpaceX will likely remove the stand's hydraulic rams and begin installing Raptor engines and associated heat shielding. Then Starship S-24 can enter the final stages of qualification, wet dress rehearsal and static fire testing. Next, let's see this amazing view under Super Heavy Booster 7. We don't have the full view, but if all the Raptors on the outer ring installed means 20 plus one in the inner ring, which means 12 more to go, maybe this was taken last week, and by now all the Raptors are installed. This could support Starship's first orbital launch attempt later this year. Apart from Starship's plans, Elon also recognizes the accomplishments of the Falcon teams in the meeting. The last seven or so months have been landmark periods for the SpaceX workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. For the first time ever, the company is actually matching or exceedingly extremely lofty launch cadence targets publicly revealed by Musk earlier this year. In the first five months of 2022, SpaceX has completed 22 successful launches. In the last seven months, SpaceX has completed 30 launches. SpaceX also has at least five launches nominally planned for June, meaning the company is on track to launch just over one per week in the first half of the year after Musk revealed a goal of 52 to 60 launches in 2022. SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft continue to excel as well. Cargo Dragon is on the brink of its 26th space station cargo delivery, while Crew Dragon remains the United States' only way to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. It spent tens of billions of dollars to help build. Crew Dragon's private career is also off to an excellent start, with two all-private launches already down and a third and fourth planned. In late 2022 and early 2023, on top of regular NASA transport missions. NASA recently plans to buy five more SpaceX crewed flights to the ISS. Contract modification would bring SpaceX through 14 crew missions. Last but not least, let's talk about Starlink. SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet constellation has secured close to half a million customers in 32 countries two and a half years after operational satellite launches began. The constellation has almost 2,400 working satellites in orbit, of which almost 1,800 are fully operational. There is a good chance that half of all active satellites will be owned and operated by SpaceX within the next few months. SpaceX has also delivered more than 15,000 Starlink dishes to war-torn Ukraine and announced its first airline connectivity partnerships within the last few months. Lastly, the CEO published the first official renders of SpaceX's next-generation Starlink V2.0 satellites and the massive PEZ dispenser-style mechanism Starships will initially use to deploy the massive spacecraft in orbit. Based on the renders, SpaceX appears to have more or less upscaled its existing rectangular Starlink V1X satellite design by a factor of two, producing a spacecraft that will measure about 7 by 3 meters or 10 by 23 feet. Previously, Elon Musk also said SpaceX depends on Starship's success to launch the next-generation Starlink 2.0 satellites. Falcon neither has the volume nor the mass to orbit capability required for Starlink 2.0, Musk said. So even if we shrunk the Starlink satellite down, the total upmass of Falcon is not nearly enough to do Starlink 2.0, he explained. We need Starship to work and fly frequently or Starlink 2.0 will be stuck on the ground, Musk said. A Starship is expected to be capable of deploying up to 400 Starlink satellites to orbit on a single mission, which will enable SpaceX to rapidly complete building the broadband constellation. Curiously, in the video, the Starlink dispenser and tiny payload slot shown only appear to allow Starship to carry around 60 satellites, suggesting that the company would need to develop a different deployment method to achieve its ultimate goal of launching 110 to 120 satellites at once. And that just about wraps it up for today's episode. Don't forget to share your ideas in the comment section. Everyone's support is motivation for us to create more quality content. Thanks and we'll see you next time.