cannot achieve a starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year the raptors are so key to starship because the super heavy booster that gets the ship into space with its NUMBER_TOKEN ton cargo needs NUMBER_TOKEN of these engines to reach full potential plus six more on the starship second stage and we know that it's pretty likely there will be a couple of explosive failures before spacex can stick the landing of both the booster and the ship so dozens of these engines will be destroyed in the process for sure it could even add up to hundreds of scrapped raptors if this proves to be as difficult as elon has suggested it could get spacex needs that many engines to support starship's gigantic size and starship needs to be so gigantic in size to enable it to be fully reusable elon also talked about this in his ceo council speech basically the typical orbital rocket can put about two percent of its liftoff mass into orbit so if you picture a falcon NUMBER_TOKEN ready to launch out of that whole big rocket full of propellant and cargo only two percent of that weight can actually make it all the way into orbit you can make that falcon NUMBER_TOKEN bigger and go to a falcon heavy but it's still only getting two percent of that larger mass into orbit elon says starship needs to be at least double that percentage quote to my knowledge no rocket has ever lifted four percent of its liftoff mass to orbit adding that in order to make a rocket fully reusable you've got to basically create a rocket that can do about four percent if not more than four percent of its mass to orbit which hasn't happened before before we continue i'd like to take a few moments to tell you about our sponsor that is helping plant trees around the world established titles established titles is a project based on the historic scottish custom where land owners are referred to as lairds or lords and ladies in english by purchasing one square foot of dedicated land you can call yourself a lord or lady based on this historic tradition in return established titles commits to planting a tree with every order to help protect the pristine woodlands of scotland and supporting global charities such as one tree planted and trees for the future your title pack will give you one square foot of dedicated land on a private estate in ord alley aberdeenshire scotland and an official certificate with a crest with your unique plot number this is a great way to surprise a friend partner or family member and makes for a fun gift especially with christmas coming up this is a fun way to help conservation efforts in scotland and around the world and helping the planet is important to us and the channel so click on the link in the description of the video and head to established titles and use code tesla space for an additional NUMBER_TOKEN off during their holiday sale for yourself or someone you know and let's get back to the video even with all of that talk about how impossibly difficult it will be to fly the starship elon is still talking very optimistically about being able to try it for the first time as soon as january NUMBER_TOKEN and making a dozen starship flights next year alone elon says that the only limiting factor right now is regulatory approval the faa needs to give the go-ahead first before spacex can launch starship to orbit from star base in mid-november the
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