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SpaceX chief Elon Musk ‘highly confident’ his Starship will reach orbit this year
Musk acknowledged difficulties SpaceX has faced in developing the “Raptor 2” engines for its Super Heavy rocket, a reusable next-generation launch booster designed to carry the Starship spacecraft to orbit. He cited problems with melting inside the thruster chambers of the engines from intense heat.
But he said, “we’re very close to solving that”, and expected to scale up production to about 7 or 8 of the engines a week by next month and produce a new Starship and a booster every month by year’s end.
