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You can read more about the email in the Space Explored story, which is full of interesting details.
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reached out to SpaceX for comment about Musk's email and the Raptor production situation but has not yet heard back from the company. Federal Aviation Administration wraps up its environmental review of Starship's orbital launch site in South Texas by the end of the year, Musk has said. That landmark mission could occur as soon as January or February, provided the U.S.
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SpaceX is gearing up to launch the program's first orbital test flight, which will involve a Starship prototype called SN20 and a Super Heavy known as Booster 4. But right now it doesn't have any, as Starship remains in the test-flight phase. Given that Starship is designed to be completely and rapidly reusable, SpaceX should need just a few operational vehicles to be able to fly twice a month. 17 said SpaceX will 'hopefully launch' the first orbital Starship. Alien organisms could hitch a ride on our spacecraft and contaminate Earth, scientists warn A Starship prototype test fires its six Raptor rocket engines on Novemin Boca Chica, Texas. NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit SpaceX Inspiration4 astronauts return to Earth with historic splashdown off Florida coast "What it comes down to is that we face a genuine risk of bankruptcy if we can’t achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year," the missive reads. Time is of the essence to get the Raptor problem fixed, Musk stresses in the email. These terminals will be useless otherwise." "In addition, we are spooling up terminal production to several million units per year, which will consume massive capital, assuming that satellite V2 will be on orbit to handle the bandwidth demand. "Satellite V1, by itself, is financially weak, while V2 is strong," the email reads, according to Space Explored. But that workhorse launcher (which employs Merlin engines) cannot accommodate the bigger V2 satellites, which Musk sees as vital moneymakers for the company. The company has already lofted more than 1,600 V1 Starlink craft, and roughly 100 of the more-advanced V1.5 line, with its Falcon 9 rocket. Musk explains that Starship is needed to launch Version 2 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites. (SpaceX's headquarters are in Hawthorne, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.) "Unless you have critical family matters or cannot physically return to Hawthorne, we will need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster," reads the email, which has not seen directly. In the email, which was obtained by Space Explored, Musk describes the Raptor production situation as a "crisis" that is "much worse than it had seemed a few weeks ago." He says that he was foregoing a planned Thanksgiving weekend break to work on the Raptor production line and implores all SpaceX employees to pitch in if they can.