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SpaceX’s Supersized Starship Rocket and the Future of Galactic Exploration | Jennifer Heldmann | TED

SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new — and supersized — way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help humanity achieve its next galactic leaps and usher in a new era of space exploration, from investigating the solar system’s…

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SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new — and supersized — way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help humanity achieve its next galactic leaps and usher in a new era of space exploration, from investigating the solar system’s many ocean worlds to launching bigger telescopes that can see deeper into the universe.

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216 Comments

  1. Nate

    June 25, 2022 at 4:03 pm

    Elon Musk has been a true gift to humanity. He really has advanced humanization with his drive, work ethic, and transformative companies. Truly inspiring.

  2. Michael Gunn

    June 25, 2022 at 4:27 pm

    Where do I apply to be a Mars construction worker?

  3. Kyle Mcloughlin

    June 25, 2022 at 4:28 pm

    I can’t believe it: Someone at NASA publicly and unreservedly excited about Starship. Evangelising Starship, even. This is really good!

  4. Angel Rodríguez

    June 25, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    I want to go to Europe. I weigh 80 kg and I am 1.80 m tall. I’m mechanical engineer. I can learn and do everything. EVERYTHING.

  5. Michelle Lewis

    June 25, 2022 at 5:43 pm

    No No No, $100k per lb was to Mars, $900 per lb is into LEO, these are not the same. One gets the point of reduced costs but don’t straw man

  6. The Shadow

    June 25, 2022 at 5:47 pm

    Don’t expect any of this to be reality in our lifetimes. We might not even get back to the moon for fifty or a hundred years, and it’ll likely be the Chinese who get there. When Elon Musk dies, the impetus to get off world will die with him. The Americans are on a rapid road to self-destruction, so someone else will have to get out there.

  7. D Hickey

    June 25, 2022 at 6:30 pm

    I’d like to see orbiters and landers built on industrial scale. We’re constantly surprised by what we’ve learned in space. Let’s get after it. Likewise, we will very quickly need those construction blueprints for orbital and Martian structures.

  8. Marussa Metocharaki

    June 25, 2022 at 6:40 pm

    I WOULD LOVE TO TRAVEL…!!!!!!MY BEST WISHES!!!!!!

  9. King Dingeling

    June 25, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Why is she parroting speeches on TED that Elon Musk has already given 1000 times himself?

  10. Richard Kenneth Eng

    June 25, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Galactic exploration??? Starship has no capability to leave the solar system.

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  11. Keith Blake

    June 25, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    Also note. One point she didn’t repeat of Elon’s mars + space dream. Mass production of the rocket that brings the machines. Looking at having 1000 set off each Mars launch window. Starship system = tractor trailer of space

  12. Brenda Rocheck

    June 25, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    I am confident we will reach all the goals discussed in this TED Talks.

  13. sosick2005

    June 25, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    Enough talk already let’s roll

  14. DariusAufmBock

    June 25, 2022 at 11:15 pm

    She just swept the Space Shuttle under the carpet lol. Didn’t even show it in the slide. She could’ve mentioned how NASA pioneered reusable rockets and staged combustion engines.

  15. 彩雲

    June 25, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    How about building an airport on moon?

  16. Chris Smith

    June 25, 2022 at 11:37 pm

    Amazing presentation, and this really landed so many great points about why this is important and how markedly advanced these capabilities are today (that are being developed). Anyone interested in “What’s the big deal with SpaceX” (or Starship in particular) should watch this. Thanks!

  17. Kuatog

    June 25, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    So are they going to apply geopolitics on Mars I ask because USA is not the only country interested in sending people to Mars.

  18. tim kahn

    June 26, 2022 at 12:01 am

    whats different is millions more have become homeless and millions more will starve because of putins war in ukraine. my question is why billions are being spent to get too mars. a place with out air and to date a crazy small amount of water. i get as humans we may end on just earth. but with the disregard we treat each other come on we have way too much here on planet earth to save then anything on mars.

  19. CNYCNY1

    June 26, 2022 at 12:44 am

    Basically copied Elons entire speech and overlay with women voice.

  20. manu lasvegas

    June 26, 2022 at 12:44 am

    Good future thinking but many people need to sacrifice their lives to be in Mars one day may be in a million years

  21. S. Silv

    June 26, 2022 at 1:04 am

    Send the Supreme Court to the Moon!

  22. Aethereal

    June 26, 2022 at 1:09 am

    this is all p r for profit or a stupid expensive idea for the human race..

  23. Etsub Mechal

    June 26, 2022 at 1:22 am

    “Size matters” comment was left field 😂

  24. Raja Andika

    June 26, 2022 at 1:23 am

    Replay what elon said

  25. Popel Grüner

    June 26, 2022 at 8:00 pm

    Are we alone in the universe? That question has been answered since we know there are UFOs, sorry UAPs roaming the skies on our planet.

  26. AZOffRoadster

    June 26, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    I’m imagining a Starship sized JWST. HUGE.

  27. Burak Ozkan

    June 26, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    We’re gonna do it. No matter the cost, no matter the difficulties that may arise, we are going to be a multi-planetary species.

  28. Stbs Abs

    June 26, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    They are soing their best to advertise what they do and attract funding.

  29. Kim Smyth

    June 26, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    Heaps of animations out there that would have helped. Verbal explanations don’t cut it.

  30. Lonny Self

    June 26, 2022 at 8:43 pm

    all I know is I am giddy over the news that we have testing again Monday.

  31. Llewellyn Haye

    June 26, 2022 at 9:02 pm

    What is life?

  32. AmazingSpots of cities

    June 26, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    as much as this sounds fun. i guess after we destroy earth lets do the same in another planet. its like virus (covid) lets go to mars and multiply into new ‘variant’

  33. Jonathan Sung

    June 26, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    This is a message to anyone watching the video in the year 2100 and beyond: Hello from the year 2022! I really hope you guys have successfully established a self-sustaining base on Mars! (And I pray to God that nothing like the Hindenburg ever happened).

  34. Zebra Talk

    June 26, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    Nothing new…
    I’m sure that those us that are interested in and follow space technology development has heard everything discussed in this video. Hiw about something new, instead of we don’t throw away passenger jets after one usage.

  35. Master Blaster

    June 26, 2022 at 9:43 pm

    just here copying things other people have already said, gee wizz can i have my 13 min back.

  36. David Falconer

    June 26, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    Mines bigger than Elons 😝😝😝😝😝😝

  37. Drew Durant

    June 26, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    You talk about rockets as if they arnt turbo thrust boosters attached to fuel launched into orbit at 1000s of KpH.

  38. j v

    June 26, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    13 minutes to say nothing new. most disappointing TED talk I’ve seen.

  39. Chris Banzet

    June 26, 2022 at 10:33 pm

    As a science enthusiast in general, but someone with a background in Psychology, the most interesting thing about our massive change in space travel, isn’t what we’ll do once there…

    Every day I gauge the level of “true comprehension” the average person has about science or space… Even your most tech savvy youth really lack a general overall sense of outer space. They’re simply clueless….

    Add in AI, robotics, what AI and super computers will do for physical and chemical engineering, etc and tomorrow will be surreal to most of you…. There’s just way too much of a gap between what most know about even the most fundamental basics, and the incredible advancements taking place at warp speed in science and engineering.

    If you laugh because senior citizens can’t use a smartphone/computer, that’s nothing to the 100 fold gap between today’s human and tomorrow’s science sprint… My greatest concern won’t be getting payload into space, but rather getting the human psyche to catch up to it…..

  40. João de Carvalho

    June 26, 2022 at 10:50 pm

    This rocket will really open the gates to a new space age. But that Mars colonization thing is a load of crap.

  41. Caroline Webb

    June 26, 2022 at 10:52 pm

    Fabulous information and delivery! So glad that YouTube began playing it before I knew it was happening and I was hooked! Congratulations to all those working on the Starship Rocket to make an interesting future for our species in space. May the venture go exceedingly well!

  42. Mark Carpenter

    June 26, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    Amen!

  43. D JG

    June 26, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    Be sure to bring the capability of manufacturing military weapons on Mars. Where there are humans, there will be war.

  44. polo delmar

    June 26, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    you ever pondered how big it’s the damage that does the fuels that burn into the atmosphere when they send all this rockets rockets to space

  45. Lorax Tribe

    June 26, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    People only accept that we are subject to abrupt and catastrophic climate change because all scientists agree now. Scientists are also in agreement that humans can’t survive a trip to Mars, let alone live there. It’s the gravity. How full of Hopium must you be to lie to these good people?

  46. Rafael Meliton Rodriguez Migliano

    June 27, 2022 at 12:11 am

    Technology is further along than you know. Mars is being mined. The available supply of rare earth elements is no longer limited to conventional mining activity on Earth.

  47. Susan Vaughn

    June 27, 2022 at 12:19 am

    Venus is the place to go. It has heat and active chemicals like sulfur. We could build floating cities on the atmosphere while we solve the problems of landing and terraforming.
    Mars is cold and dead. It has long passed the goldylox zone. There is no probable way to create a pressure atmosphere on Mars unless we burn half of it up with fusion energy.

  48. Watashi

    June 27, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Wow good

  49. Alec Holland

    June 27, 2022 at 8:21 am

    Great majority of people believe that these bilionaries are self made, but they got sponsorship from their parents, also rich people who got their money from unethical sources like blood diamonds. Today, they are still sponsored, but by NASA and the government. So easy to succeed when you start so so so so ahead (like bro Ellon) and forever sponsored by “DADDIES”.

  50. Jason Wrinkle

    June 27, 2022 at 8:26 am

    here, drink this kool-aide…

  51. Alec Holland

    June 27, 2022 at 8:26 am

    I think that the problem is NOT investing on space exploration instead in our EARTH problems, like: extinctions, climate change, wars, guns and so on – it has to be done. The PROBLEM IS: how most people pay attention and care only about that, when there are priorities here in our planet.

  52. Composer Yaw Yaw Mayhem

    June 27, 2022 at 9:03 am

    Well its about time. Ty Elon ☺️

  53. Alan Grant

    June 27, 2022 at 9:07 am

    Why would anyone want to take English money to Mars?

  54. Change Master

    June 27, 2022 at 9:46 am

    The location of the first settlement on Mars would require knowing the physical lay out of Mars as we know Earth like fault lines would be essential for anything sent to the future settlements on Mars (Earthquakes) and the chance of meeting other life forms would need portfolios in place… there is so much including Earths axis being move by the solar system over thousands of years that must affect Mars position too… yous are so lucky SpaceX live free & prosper …

  55. FPV Angel

    June 27, 2022 at 9:53 am

    What rubbish!

  56. Sorry I'm Late

    June 27, 2022 at 10:38 am

    Now human are desperate to find new home, and abandon their home problems.

  57. GALILEO

    June 27, 2022 at 10:50 am

    Current developments in human space exploration make me a happy person! 🚀🤍

  58. jim stineman

    June 27, 2022 at 11:24 am

    No one is more excited about space than me, let me choose my medicine or food for the week. Looking like I can’t afford my medicine. Have fun in space Jeff and Elon. I will be down here in poverty.

  59. Danylo Bilokha

    June 27, 2022 at 11:42 am

    I mean, there are nothing new – no new ideas; something she comes up herself (maybe) but everything everyone else wrote and she just recaped.

  60. Andrew Ame

    June 27, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    Thanks to Elon Musk

  61. the universe is xpressing itself tru you

    June 27, 2022 at 3:17 pm

    Educate yourself For people interested please watch: common sense skeptic, he has great analysis about Elon musk and his so called inventions, he is a con artist that supports coups (over throwing governments in other countries) please educate yourself.

  62. the universe is xpressing itself tru you

    June 27, 2022 at 3:18 pm

    Watch: common sense skeptic, he has great analysis about Elon musk and what a conman he is.

  63. z

    June 27, 2022 at 5:14 pm

    Why are rockets launched via thrust/rocket fuel, instead of using renewable energy and A.I.?

    If up-scaled battery drones can lift rocket halfway through the atmosphere (low Gravitational force), where rocket engine can fire, And drones detach themselves from the middle of rocket.

    Why not built a space station, as satellite of earth, where starship can be assembled via A.I.

  64. Mantas R

    June 27, 2022 at 6:00 pm

    i can say, without woter i can live 8 days , food {atleast minimum 2-3} . my work power is beter then the my team. im not the phone guy on the free minnute., is you work you wou work. Sleep and self studi . 800-900 a .m . i want tu do so more and lern some more.

  65. viktorgoa

    June 27, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    Amazing, now we just need to see the details which have already been debunked by Common Sense Sceptic. The fact that they are destroying the protected areas in Boca Chica is more worrying. Yet she’s talking about submarines on Europa?? I haven’t heard more science fiction for a while👏👏

  66. Truth Observer

    June 27, 2022 at 8:04 pm

    As if human kind and its civilization got along well to tackle the issues in front of us. The imaginary politics and boundaries created by mankind is hindering sustainable progress and opportunities for most being on earth, let alone other planets or stars. First, focus on what’s in front of you then spend resources to reach out to outer space opportunities

  67. Frank Satallante

    June 27, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    Reaching for the stars we blind the sky. R.J.D..

  68. Gruñón29

    June 27, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    if they are destroying the earth population with covid, wars, famines. It will be easier for them to destroy it in another planet

  69. Haralds Baumanis

    June 27, 2022 at 8:28 pm

    I can’t wait for the orbital Starship tests later this year 🙂

  70. Weaponized Autism

    June 27, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    West World season 4 is up

  71. Allen Markham

    June 27, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    So a big advertisement – not wrong, but ‘Starship’ by SpaceX

  72. SeeTheWholeTruth

    June 27, 2022 at 11:11 pm

    Yeah. This is about as honest as appointing NASA to UAP information collection and judging. Running away from the incoming micronova is all about the elite and has nothing to do with humanity or quality of life. They knew 50 years ago what is about to hit us. You got told the story of man made gases, to keep the sun and its cycles and its history completely out of your mindset. This is just a possible ark, for the worst of people, .. yay?

  73. Ron Buckner

    June 27, 2022 at 11:17 pm

    Trucks and Tractors? Does John Deere know about this?

  74. lemonlimelukey

    June 28, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    yikes.

  75. Jean-Jacques Reibel

    June 28, 2022 at 5:53 pm

    YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! 🚀

  76. jaime aguinaldo

    June 28, 2022 at 6:08 pm

    Just how much fuel does it burns and how much heat and pollution does it contribute… like 1000 airplane flight per spacex flight…

  77. L B

    June 28, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    Rocket is to big to pass through the asteroid belt…. it will crash!

  78. sahroj husain

    June 28, 2022 at 7:33 pm

    Really very interesting subject and the way you have explained is sweet and digestive, This is the power of a good speaker even though a topic is so sensitive but the way you have explain is really simple and understandable , I m very optimistic to see the starship launches on the the Mars, definitely it’s going to open a new chapter in human exploration history.

  79. Roman Rohac

    June 28, 2022 at 8:16 pm

    I am as excited by all this as the next man, however listening to her I cannot lose the impression she is trying to find investors, because they cannot think of ways how to effectively use this massive payload capacity without loosing money.

  80. Bilan Gumus

    June 28, 2022 at 8:26 pm

    Before going to Mars people need to understand that if you are afraid of a Virus like Covid and need a booster every 3 months, then as a species we aren’t even ready to confront the millions of new viruses in outer space.

  81. jamison884

    June 28, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    A TED talk that’s basically a SpaceX press conference with some observations made by Elon Musk. None of this information is new, just rehashed. : (

  82. iris baez

    June 28, 2022 at 9:11 pm

    7:24, SHE IS WRONG AND MAYBE LYING. LIFE AS WE KNOW REQUIRES LIQUID WATER, BUT WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT LIFE ITSELF? We as humanoids don’t know anything at all about life and much less about the galaxy or the Universe. WE KEEP SPECULATING ALL THE TIME.

  83. robert cretu

    June 28, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    A lot of wishful thinking…

  84. Ian Miles

    June 28, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    Repeating what Elon the Man said.

  85. Ian Miles

    June 28, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    No you would not launch telescopes fully assembled you would make them bigger and still fold them up to get the best bang for your buck per launch.

  86. K otgc

    June 28, 2022 at 9:42 pm

    Yonic vs phallic design. Yonic has redundancy, phallic has 0 redundancy.

  87. Roger Vieira

    June 28, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    Man this Starship hoopla is about get fucking lit! Excited to see the future of the international transportation of goods with starship.

  88. Domenico Sacino

    June 28, 2022 at 11:02 pm

    i hope i’ll live enough to see this

  89. VNYC

    June 28, 2022 at 11:05 pm

    Saturn V is NOT Current… Why was Proton M or Angara A5 not put on the row for comparison… and its not just SIZE comparison… Saturn V was gigantic because it used hydrogen… and yet it was comparable in terms of Payload to ENERGIA… But ENERGIA was a lot more compact because it used a different fuel and had 4 Solid boosters… This woman is not really saying anything new… Whats the point of this video???

  90. VNYC

    June 28, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    Also, “GALACTIC EXPLORATION” ??? What??? I dont care if you put 100000000000 starships together, there is no Galactic exploration using chemical rockets… NOT POSSIBLE… Clickbait

  91. Max Headroom

    June 28, 2022 at 11:35 pm

    Wonder why they used an earlier design of Starship to show at 2:41. That was the “ITS” design and would have been 12m wide instead of the 8m that Starship is now.

  92. Andrew James

    June 28, 2022 at 11:56 pm

    This thing will never reach orbit.

  93. Xpeng Fangirl

    June 28, 2022 at 11:57 pm

    nato squeezed china and russia too far, and now that phalic space ship? ban gold, and we will shock you, thanks for handing the new order to russia and china, the yuan is getting too strong, so we buy rubles now, and rands, and russia gives us cheap oil, so we capitalize, and please buy btc, tesla, apple, and amazon, so our factories keep pumping, we on giga 4 now, all you need, and order with features, so we we see you better, leave africa to russia and china bz it is ours, you can have leftist south america for free

  94. Juan Velasquez

    June 29, 2022 at 12:25 am

    I can see the phallic symbolism

  95. Gustav Hettler

    June 29, 2022 at 12:54 am

    I find it amazing the be progressing into other planets. How she says about our ancestors being self resilient with earths resources . Why are we till today not using our technology for the good of humanity ? Creating permaculture and self resilient communities ? Why are you trying to go to Mars and tell us it is for everyone’s use, but still global elites are the ones profiting from planets . What about regenerating desertification areas and give back to planet earth, what we suckt all of for just Obesity, Consumerism and Greed. With this way of being humanity is not gonna go far .
    Create robots that work in mars to create self sufficient way of starting a new human COLONY .

  96. Gustav Hettler

    June 29, 2022 at 12:55 am

    I wonder how this people are living trough a financial depression, still using and abusing the population for their own high consume, waste of energy ………..

  97. E F

    June 29, 2022 at 1:00 am

    Liquid methane is about $1.50 USD per liter. It will cost $3 million USD just to fuel the UPPER stage. Not the massive booster. Something is off with her math.

    Also – Saturn V could put MORE payload into low earth orbit than Starship can. And it will take 10 additional launches to refuel Starship in orbit. So multiply that $2 million USD per launch by 10 and the numbers aren’t nearly as impressive.

  98. Jason Mitmesser

    June 29, 2022 at 1:00 am

    Mars has no oxygen. How the heck is that gunna happen? It’s not going to be transformed into another earth unless God does it. Would take a miracle. Otherwise – underground city, like Antarctica. Not pretty.

  99. Marcello Rossini

    June 29, 2022 at 6:00 pm

    …nulla di nuovo….ma sempre interessante.

  100. Thamindu kavinda

    June 29, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    what a great talk 🙏

  101. Kenneth James

    June 29, 2022 at 6:09 pm

    Ok lady you’re not Elon. Lets not quote him directly and make it seem like your words.

  102. Rocco Devillers

    June 29, 2022 at 6:13 pm

    Very enthusiastic presentation. Doesn’t live up to the title “Future of GALACTIC Exploration”. Little bit of gaslighting there. Yes the space craft is MUCH bigger than forerunners, but otherwise the same. Given chemical propellants the terminal speeds after launch won’t be significant, meaning true intrastellar travel remains a pipe dream. Sorry. With the proposed plan to “colonize Mars” I think I’ll wait and see. I rather feel that given the immense cost involved, humanity would be better served dealing with the great problems we have on the home planet eg food, shelter, literacy, wars, Tyranny, climate change, epidemics, drought etc etc. R

  103. Marco Villafuerte

    June 29, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    Sci fi

  104. John

    June 29, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    The spacesuits for Mars are a huge apparently under-recognized problem (or at least under-publicized problem). Spacesuits for the moon worked at about 4 psi and were very cumbersome and very expensive. Going to 1 atmosphere — 14 psi — makes it much much harder. If you don’t have the latter the astronauts will have to depressurize for a few hours to avoid the bends after every excursion. etc…

    • BradiKal61

      June 30, 2022 at 12:19 am

      You are assuming that any Mars base is going to have a full atmosphere of pressure. I’m guessing they will use the lowest comfortable pressure.

  105. bobbymac1947

    June 29, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    The DC 3 for space travel.

  106. Biohazard Industries WR

    June 29, 2022 at 7:01 pm

    I’m incredibly optimistic about starship, but I feel like mars first is stupid. Gain experience with the moon first before considering mars.

    • BradiKal61

      June 30, 2022 at 12:18 am

      Hate to break it to you, but we got to the moon 50 years ago. Mars is a possible future home for humanity once the people that must leaves behind on Earth have destroyed its ecosystem. The moon will always be a barren moon.

  107. Julian Oosthuizen

    June 29, 2022 at 7:08 pm

    why is she just repeating what we’ve heard for years?

  108. MICHAEL MCDONELL

    June 29, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    This is dated material, but interesting. Now it is stainless steel and the refueling will take place in orbit when the refueling station in orbit is full enough to fill a starship in one docking, which a very high-risk endeavor. Why because of the very high mass of the two-objects docking in freefall, is like two 747’s docking while floating without any air turbulence or ground height to worry about. They both weigh many tons and are loaded in this case with huge quantities of fuel and oxygen that have to be moved while in a vacuum with extreme high and low temperatures.
    This is going to take a while to figure out, but in time I’m sure they will get it right as NASA is very interested in orbital refueling and has a contract with SpaceX to do just this.

    • BradiKal61

      June 30, 2022 at 12:16 am

      I’m betting that maneuvering to starships close together in low Earth orbit for refueling is going to be easier to accomplish then having an orbital booster take off and land safely 127 times in a row, which is what happened as of today.

  109. Jim McClarin

    June 29, 2022 at 7:25 pm

    Great job Jennifer Heldmann! I hope you had a good audience.

  110. Paul Michael Freedman

    June 29, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    The Saturn V could loft 140 metric tons to orbit. That’s way more than a Starship but the Saturn V cost a magnitude more and was not reusable. Starship has a payload penalty because it has to take fuel for landing with it. One Starship can potentially launch over 2,000 tons to orbit if it manages 20 flights without RUD

    • Bruno Oliveira

      June 30, 2022 at 12:09 am

      you have your things confused.
      starship can also take up to 150 metric tons or more to orbit like saturn v. the difference starts when it goes beyond LEO…at LEO, both vehicles can take more then 100 metric tones, but when you start to go GTO or LTI orbits, starship needs to refuel.
      But dont confuse yourself, starship can take the same if not more then the saturn v to LEO, it just cant take 40 metric tones to the moon like the saturn v without refueling.
      But again, that’s beauty of starship, if refueled it will take more then 100 metric tonnes to the moon, while the Saturn v couldn’t!

  111. Collin Graf

    June 29, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    I’ll believe it when I see it. There’s no new technology that has been explained here. There’s no reason to think space endeavors are more commercially viable with starship than they are now. I would love to hear how they figure they will cut the costs more than 100 fold.

    • BradiKal61

      June 30, 2022 at 12:14 am

      Sailing voyages to early America were extremely expensive until it was discovered what could be gotten there and returned home for a profit. Making space travel economical and also finding industries that can be profitable will be what makes SpaceX a true leader.

  112. Mike

    June 29, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    What is spaceX gonna do about the negative effects of weightlessness on the human body?

  113. Cesar Costa

    June 29, 2022 at 9:37 pm

    God bless Elon musk 👏👏👏

  114. Aubrey Wade

    June 29, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    What a fantastic, fabulous capability, and a wonderful time to be alive. It’s such an enormous leap forward in human consciousness and ability. Thank GOD GODDESS AND GOODNESS for Elon Musk. We’re fortunate to be alive right now ✨🌟

  115. NAYKD POET

    June 29, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    1:02 min Image of stacked Starship-Booster – it’s not hard to imagine in 50 years or sooner from the present, this image will equate to the first flight of the Wright Brother’s, so rudimentary to the current advancements in flight and space exploration technology.

  116. Jonathan

    June 29, 2022 at 10:27 pm

    Joshua Heldmann was Elon Musk grandfather, so she might be Musk relative 😇

  117. Duane Parris

    June 29, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    Fantastic speaker 👍🏻

  118. 三好博子

    June 29, 2022 at 10:46 pm

    So wonderful to listen and learn the fast progress of Space X !!

  119. Davy Wavy

    June 29, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    Starship has potential to be the greatest invention in American history. Our country is great because we constantly push the world in to a better place through technology. We created electricity, telephones, mass production of cars, airplanes, the internet, and now Starship.

    • Jackson Valdez

      June 30, 2022 at 1:07 am

      💯. That is exactly why Elon Musk moved to the USA to make his technology visions come to fruition. We really do live in the land of opportunity.

  120. Wil Materna

    June 29, 2022 at 11:35 pm

    what a joke, before this tin can goes anywhere near even another star, we’ll come up with faster and better ways to get there, most likely overtaking said tin can to its destination

  121. Dorin G

    June 29, 2022 at 11:57 pm

    😊🌎⏳🚀♥️

  122. Niall Noonan

    June 30, 2022 at 12:01 am

    I don’t trust anything space x says

    • BradiKal61

      June 30, 2022 at 12:10 am

      Nobody said you were smart.

  123. TIOSwasHere

    June 30, 2022 at 1:21 am

    Is it possible to have internet on mars and sync the data same time with the world can we upload a video from world and mars can see at the time it uploaded?

  124. RavenFyre

    June 30, 2022 at 4:15 am

    You launch = one chance of die
    You launch and land = two chances to die
    Hope they get it right.

  125. Kevin Perdomo

    June 30, 2022 at 5:09 am

    Quick catch She quote elon musk example about planes and rockets usability at the intro!

  126. Christoff Havenga

    June 30, 2022 at 7:16 am

    My bags are packed, I’m ready to go! 😉

  127. Yoosuf Muneer

    June 30, 2022 at 8:36 am

    9:22 That’s great for risk reduction. Probably reduces development time & cost.

  128. Maxim Fitness & Massage

    June 30, 2022 at 9:49 am

    Extremely simplified and unnecessary presentation. There many things to spent time on youtube with greater details of scientific piece with no misleading information.

  129. M N

    June 30, 2022 at 11:09 am

    Mars Colonies have the benefit of adding much needed resiliency to humanities technology if done right. Excessive blootware and continuous replacement technology and devices will not be acceptable in such a resource restricted environment.

  130. Would You Return to Monke?

    June 30, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    Beautiful and a Scientist that loves Rockets?! OMG OMG OMG

  131. JR1505

    June 30, 2022 at 12:59 pm

    Don’t get me wrong I am a huge fan of the ongoing space exploration, however it is coming at a cost.
    We need to find a fuel that is not a hydrocarbon – nuclear is probably the best way to go.

    Here is an article regarding issues launching all these rockets – Environmental impact of rocket launches is ozone depletion. High temperatures during launch and re-entry events can convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen oxides which can deplete ozone in the stratosphere. In addition, emissions of compounds such as NOx, HOx, and ClOx are highly reactive and are directly involved in catalytic cycles, leading to an increase in the ozone removal rate.

  132. alex15449

    June 30, 2022 at 1:24 pm

    Currently space x has a launch cost as of 2022 of $65 million which works out at $1200 per pound. To say they are aiming for a cost of $2 million per launch is quite a projection!

  133. Antares

    June 30, 2022 at 2:20 pm

    She’s either naive or pretending to be.

    The fact that she praises Starship as if it’s completed or even viable shows very low level of critical thinking.

    Mark my words: Starship will not work unless they make extreme redesigns.

    Everything is wrong with it, including the architecture itself. The fact that it can not reach beyond LEO without massive refuelings is a massive problem. In-orbit refuelings have never been done on this scale AND it would require 10+ refuelling before it could go anywhere beyond LEO. That means 10+ launches… which means months or possible more than a year, just waiting for the tankers. And because of cryogenic boil-off, I highly doubt they’ll ever be able to top it up.

    The numbers that SpaceX have put out are impressive… but they are only numbers on a website. Nothing of that has been demonstrated, at all.

    And if you are so gullible that you take the numbers on some investor-bait website as 100% accurate, then you have a problem. See, I can also make up numbers: “I’m currently designing a rocket that can deliver 1000 metric tons to a Geostationary orbit. It’s a fully reusable SSTO that can launch ten times per day. The fuel is water and love. Launch cost will be $4.50…. Please give me money and attention”

    I know that most people who read this comment will scoff and think I’m wrong. Maybe they are fans of SpaceX or simply really hopeful that we are entering a sci-fi future. That “The Expanse” or “Star Trek” is just around the corner.

    And I get that. I also would like magic to be real.

    But it isn’t.

    But why am I taking time to be the wet blanket? Why can’t people dream?

    Well, I have no problem with people wanting the future to be really fancy. In fact, I think it’s great. But we MUST temper our enthusiasm with realism. It’s the only way to actually reach those goals.

    If we keep falling for every snake oil salesman like Elon Musk or the “Gateway Foundation” or “Mars One” (the list is even longer), then we’ll end up throwing away all our money and attention on nothing. And then, that future that we all hope for will be LESS likely to happen because we all got so disillusioned by the scam artists.

  134. Ramón B

    June 30, 2022 at 2:44 pm

    Hahaha, sure! The New Edward Bernays (Elon) is in our minds! Just a mega capsule! For a significant space exploration we need star wars technology and better labor rights!

  135. Angel Rodriguez

    June 30, 2022 at 2:59 pm

    Dreams 🙄

  136. Angel Rodriguez

    June 30, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    Why not save earth and save money?🤔

  137. Angel Rodriguez

    June 30, 2022 at 3:01 pm

    Are we going to continue polluting the solar system 🤔

  138. Angel Rodriguez

    June 30, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    Who pays for the construction of the space craft 🤔

  139. Ramón B

    June 30, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    This ted talk is propaganda and not even directly from the company. Only speculation!
    All the advancements are in proportion with the capabilities of common rockets, yes reseting rocket equation not with one just refuel in orbit, six refuels! Almost the same as launch many rockets to reach the same mass but just in a single cargo bay! Nothing special, but yes “Mastering space”!!

  140. Luci Feric

    June 30, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    Hahahahaha. SpaceX is predicting 11 to 13 Starship launches for 1 moon mission.

  141. Sean Harbinger

    June 30, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    Let’s talk about the carbon footprint of launching over and over and over, especially with heavy loads.

  142. PW

    June 30, 2022 at 7:01 pm

    She says “we” all the time. But she’s just summarising Elon’s plans.

  143. Andrew Williams

    June 30, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    Snake oil

  144. Cee J Collections

    June 30, 2022 at 9:39 pm

    well if this is what we have then this is what we got. let’s do this

  145. 629

    June 30, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    WHAT ABOUT THE UFO/UAP TECHNOLOGY ?!?

  146. LUMPERS ELITE

    June 30, 2022 at 10:35 pm

    I love the space talk

  147. Tradiec Shop

    July 1, 2022 at 12:18 am

    NICEE

  148. Tradiec Shop

    July 1, 2022 at 12:19 am

    GREAT TOPIC

  149. Psalm 3713

    July 1, 2022 at 5:22 am

    Gotta love how she plagiarized most of what Elon Musk himself says

  150. Psalm 3713

    July 1, 2022 at 5:27 am

    *Funny how Elon Musk has never once mentioned the top speed of the Starship once it’s in Space* June 30 2022

  151. Mikkel O

    July 1, 2022 at 6:46 am

    If there was one element I wish SpaceX would skip: hyperbole.

  152. Burnya Bro

    July 1, 2022 at 9:41 am

    “Galactic exploration”? FFS what an ABSURD title, thumbs down and not watching what is certainly bs.

  153. Mike Keating

    July 1, 2022 at 11:16 am

    Very interesting topic..
    Very boring presentation. 😴

  154. George Sabol

    July 1, 2022 at 11:41 am

    We, as a species ,have had prodigy’s , intellectual supermen & women. They will drag the future into existence. You can’t just throw down the gauntlet, stop our traditional energy use & make this happen with no infrastructure. Amazing things will happen, when the government stays out of the way. The last great Democrat president we had , was, John Kennedy. He got the ball rolling. I don’t care about his indiscretions, he loved his Country, that goes along way in my book.

  155. I Love Jeff Bezos!

    July 1, 2022 at 12:26 pm

    Looks like someone has read too much science fiction, lol.

  156. Myo Zin Aung

    July 1, 2022 at 1:47 pm

    Looks like SpaceX is going public soon.

  157. Chris B🚀

    July 1, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    Video editor – She just said “Dump trucks on Mars”, let’s cut to a full body side view of this lady.

  158. Robert Johnson

    July 1, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    To bad it took NASA 50 years to get other ships able to get to other space rocks ie: moon & mars

  159. iknowu

    July 1, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    I find that the way she speak is quite boring

  160. Adam Sant

    July 1, 2022 at 4:12 pm

    Really well said, and let’s go to Mars!

  161. Muffin Man Productions

    July 1, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    I think its a really important point to make that yes, at first, space flight will only be for wealthy. But that is true for every major invention. Computers, TVs, cars, planes, etc. There will always be a motivation for reducing the cost of these new inventions, so that they can reach a larger market.

  162. CARMEN VERONICA TURCU

    July 1, 2022 at 5:29 pm

    Thank you!

  163. Stefan

    July 1, 2022 at 5:51 pm

    *Don’t watch this Video if you are an space enthusiast.* It just has the basic informations in it.

  164. aqz

    July 1, 2022 at 7:33 pm

    To expensive

  165. Jeremiah Payne

    July 1, 2022 at 8:38 pm

    If we go to space will the Christian belief be Debunked 🤷🏾‍♂️

  166. daithideburca98

    July 1, 2022 at 9:05 pm

    Never forget there are people who don’t believe the USA landed on the moon in 1969

  167. Pablo Aguila

    July 1, 2022 at 9:53 pm

    I better read an article about all this than listen to this woman who actually learned a few things and just talks about cost and money.

  168. Micah Villarreal

    July 1, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    good speech. but rockets don’t work in the vacuum of space.

  169. R Fleming

    July 1, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    I think this is a tremendous presentation. My thought is the audience may be overwhelmed with news, and all the baggage that comes with that. Hopefully, those with minds not polluted with such, will be able to fully understand the importance to mankind of the words spoken on this Ted stage, and what it means to actually to venture forth into the unknown.

  170. David Moll

    July 2, 2022 at 12:02 am

    Watch from 6:40 if you are a space nerd

  171. MCRuCr

    July 2, 2022 at 12:11 am

    2:40 that illustration of starship is like 3 years old

  172. drew4021

    July 2, 2022 at 12:35 am

    Amazing, this sounds exactly like Elon’s vision but it is nice to see mainstream finally jumping onboard

  173. OximusOne

    July 2, 2022 at 12:53 am

    Sounds like same thing Elon has already said. Wow

  174. Adnan Hussain

    July 11, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    God has left the chat.

  175. Evinco

    July 11, 2022 at 10:41 pm

    It is also worth mentioning, the reason why we’d even go to Mars isn’t just to answer the question o wether we’re alone in the universe, but to also prolong the lifetime of humanity. It is not just about doing this or doing that, it is about making sure our species survives.

  176. Ben Johansson

    July 11, 2022 at 11:14 pm

    Great Presentation loved it

  177. Todd Thompson

    July 12, 2022 at 1:13 am

    is she talking to the 80+ crowd or something?

  178. Juan Ar

    July 12, 2022 at 5:05 am

    galactic exploration? Hopefully, interplanetary.

  179. ANODOMINATE

    July 12, 2022 at 3:42 pm

    STARSHIP is holy grail for humanity.

  180. Scott Lymbery

    July 12, 2022 at 4:51 pm

    Once we do Mars with it’s lower gravity well, the rest of the solar system is just a step away. Love or hate Musk he has totally revolutionised the Space industry. His rockets making vertical landings and with reusability are bringing to life the Scifi of my youth. Makes me wish I was about 40 years younger to have a shot at being part of this.

  181. Vasu Jaganath

    July 12, 2022 at 11:00 pm

    Rocketry and space technologies are an example of extreme technological devolution. In 1970s both US and USSR had superior technology at cheaper cost. Active dismantling of govt agencies and unfortunately collapse of USSR sealed the fate. Humanity won’t develop space technology unless under threat. China is the only hope for space technology.

  182. Allocation

    July 13, 2022 at 11:53 pm

    wow

  183. Bill Dickson

    July 14, 2022 at 11:40 am

    KaaaBOOM

  184. jayant chowdary

    July 14, 2022 at 4:31 pm

    One man’s vision made it all possible. ELON MUSK!!

  185. TCCNMac Cofield

    July 14, 2022 at 6:44 pm

    Congratulations to SpaceX , Elon Musk and America!!

  186. TheEverSoTalented

    July 14, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    I’m sorry…but i was listening to rather than watching this particular Ted talk- so i failed to catch this lady’s name. But being designated (by a committee of prob ‘rocket scientists!’) due to the expertise in this field one would think…but just because you have the spirit to talk to an audience..it doesn’t mean that’s all you need. This lady is basically a Elon Musk fan obviously as most everything she said wasnt factual at all.. I actually thought she was Mrs Musk the fact she was nothing more than a cheerleader!

  187. Adrien Perié

    July 15, 2022 at 11:58 pm

    If only half that money was spent on restoring healthy soils with fungal mass worldwide, the C02 excess would be stopped and start receding, and food shortages worldwide would be diminished as well as disease, dangerous bacteria and virus. But going on a dead planet were you cannot live anywhere near the surface because of radiation is more important obviously.

    • Honestlegends8

      July 21, 2022 at 8:54 am

      Be part of the solution not an addition to the problem.

  188. Captain Black

    July 16, 2022 at 8:25 am

    fantasy

    • Honestlegends8

      July 21, 2022 at 8:10 am

      Soon to be reality

    • Captain Black

      July 21, 2022 at 8:55 am

      @Honestlegends8 nope

    • Captain Black

      July 21, 2022 at 8:57 am

      @Honestlegends8 none of the multitude of problems have been addressed by more than CGI or Musk saying “Hyperlooping autonomous superheated Tesla pods in tunnels are easy I swear”

    • Honestlegends8

      July 21, 2022 at 10:14 am

      @Captain Black the boring company I’m assuming your referring too is on a completely different scale of technology on the grand scheme of things. This isn’t CGI, these are factual circumstances in reality happening on a daily occurrence.

    • Captain Black

      July 21, 2022 at 10:29 am

      @Honestlegends8 Boring company promises. 10 times faster 10 times cheaper. Reality 50 times slower same price but smaller. Promise 160mph pods. Reality Taxis doing 35mph max with traffic jams being common

  189. Theflyingcandleguy Me

    July 16, 2022 at 6:10 pm

    So we are going to kill off whatever life is there, because we have never achieved 100% sterilization of all microbiology on a space craft. There are now earth virus spores hanging around the sand on the moon. Fortunately they cannot reproduce or survive long there; however if you submerge them into a warm water ocean they could infect whatever life may exist there.

  190. asopo pilosopo

    July 17, 2022 at 5:41 am

    Travel to nowhere

  191. Luy Alfonso Žužić

    July 17, 2022 at 4:18 pm

    For the people that don’t know Starship will have it’s first orbital test by the end of the year. Which means that if everything goes alright by the end of 2020s we could be sending starships to mars and begin building the infrastructure so humans could come there by the end of 2030s.
    SpaceX is gaining momentum in the last few years and who knows what else the company could do in the following years but I’ll be there to witness the greatness.

    Btw let’s not forget about the moon base that will be built in the 2030s too!

    We really are becoming an interplanetary species and it’s so exciting!

  192. Lucas Rosa

    July 20, 2022 at 12:46 am

    ever designed… what about sea dragon?

  193. Brad Ando

    July 20, 2022 at 8:34 am

    So she doesn’t actually work for SpaceX?

  194. namanish

    July 21, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    Mars will be hard, so was the Moon. Definitely broader challenges are presented, but considering how far Apollo pushed human ingenuity, we can make it.

  195. Khmer Nature

    July 21, 2022 at 2:42 pm

    l really love.

  196. John Sirois

    July 22, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    I can’t believe how many are falling for this crap Just new war weapons spy techniques and Technocracy.

  197. alaskaoalaska

    July 28, 2022 at 9:12 am

    People can’t live on Mars for more than a few months! The gravity is so low that severe bone loss starts killing us. Totally ridiculous to talk about sustainability on Mars given that consideration. I’m all for sending people to Mars but it’s a death sentence if they are there for even a year. Very irresponsible to sell “civilization on mars” to people who don’t understand the implications of 0.4 G on human bones.

  198. S Tay

    August 8, 2022 at 8:17 am

    Great presentation, she clearly knows and is very passionate about her subject.

  199. Nicolas Marinus

    August 9, 2022 at 5:54 am

    In the meantime a billion people are still hungry. The UN should commit to ending world hunger before any Mars mission gets off the ground, make it a double goal with a clear timeline.

  200. Santiago Daniel

    August 14, 2022 at 12:16 am

    I guess we dont talk about the missing bottom finns in the new glenn diagram or that they placed an ITS photo and named it “Starship” and the very weird saturn V.

  201. Steven J. Westermann

    August 14, 2022 at 5:19 am

    Good Job 👍

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