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ASS is MIND blowing. The efficiency and speed is next level on FSD 14.3.3. Super excited for this update. We are living in the future. @elonmusk @tesla

Elon Musk: “It is impossible to become a multiplanet civilization without reusable rockets, just as it would have been impossible to colonize America with expendable boats."

We’re witnessing something that feels incredibly close to real-world magic. A fully reusable rocket the size of a skyscraper, designed to carry humanity beyond Earth and eventually to another planet. Just a few years ago, this sounded impossible. Now Starship is being tested in the open for the world to watch.

Everyone obsesses over Starship's height and thrust. The number that actually matters: cost per kg to orbit. Falcon 9 brought it from ~$54,500 (Shuttle era) to ~$1,500. Starship targets <$100. A 500x reduction in 25 years. That's the curve enabling Mars, lunar bases and orbital industry. Everything else is a consequence of that one number.

Elon Musk on Starship engineering “Starship is the most complicated machine ever made by humans, by a long shot. Any project I can think of would be easier than this, and that's why no one has made a fully reusable orbital rocket It's a very hard problem that many smart people with immense resources have tried before and failed. Falcon is partially reusable, but the upper stage is not Starship Version 3 I think this design can be fully reusable, and that full reusability is what will enable us to become a multi-planet civilization Any technical problem even like a hydraulic or something like that, it's easier problem than us”

WHY STARSHIP NEEDS TO BE SO MASSIVE: ELON MUSK EXPLAINS THE SCALE FOR MARS Elon has repeatedly emphasized that Starship’s enormous size—nearly 400 ft tall, over 5,000 tons fueled, ~1,200 tons of propellant—is no accident. It’s engineered for the massive tonnage required to build a self-sustaining city on Mars, far beyond what smaller rockets could ever achieve affordably or practically. “It’s designed to make life multiplanetary, otherwise extreme overkill for mere Earth sector activity! Starship fleet mass to orbit per year will be more than 1000 times all current Earth rockets combined, including Falcon. Necessary, for a city on Mars.” This massive scale unlocks: • Hundreds of tons per flight to orbit (reusable 100–150+ tons, pushing higher in future versions) — critical for habitats, ISRU plants, power systems, and crew in fleet quantities. • Orbital refueling efficiency — Huge propellant volume means fewer tanker launches to fill up for Mars transit. • Rapid, high-cadence production — To deliver millions of tons over time, only a vehicle this big + fully reusable enables airline-like launch rates without bankrupting the effort. Smaller rockets? They’d need thousands of launches for what Starship fleets do in dozens—impractical for colonization timelines. Size = necessity for the tonnage bottleneck. Every test flight refines this beast. The path to millions of tons on Mars starts with building big. Which upgrade—V4 thrust jumps, stretched tanks, or fleet-scale cadence—has you most pumped? Let’s accelerate to multiplanetary. 🚀🔴🌌