Video Shows SpaceX Building Another Starship Rocket In Florida – International Business Times

Elon Musk-led SpaceX is fast expanding its work on the development of Starship spacecraft and rockets for interplanetary travel.

A recent aerial video revealed the progress that the Starship rocket is making at the Florida facility of SpaceX.

According to reports, SpaceX is simultaneously working on three Starship rockets. One is in Boca Chica, Texas and two in Cocoa, Florida.

The footage showed bands of stainless steel for the Starship rocket on a stand. SpaceX uses stainless steel in building Starship to add a reflective sheen as evident in the video.

Shot by former commercial pilot John Winkopp from a flying drone, he allowed CNBC to use the footage.

Progress of SpaceX Starship

The cluster of SpaceX Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket is collectively referred to as Starship and reusable transportation systems that will carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars.

Starship as a reusable rocket can launch and land multiple times just like a commercial aircraft, per SpaceX news.

In late September, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a presentation in Texas as an update about Starships development. He spoke to the audience standing in front of the first assembled rocket at SpaceX Boca Chica facility in Texas.

Musk has been saying that SpaceX can fly to space in the coming months after a few more test flights of the new generation rockets. The Starship's nexttest flight is aiming 65,000 feet altitude. Mars colonization projects are high on Masks space agenda after encouraging data from NASA Mars rovers.

In April, SpaceX launch of a prototype Starship rocket called Starhopper has been successful. SpaceX is also bracing for the launch of Crew Dragon or Dragon 2 spacecraft that it is building for the U.S space agency, per NASA news.

SpaceX sees the army as Starship customer

Meanwhile, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell Said SpaceX views the U.S. Army as a potential customer for its Starship space vehicle and low Earth orbit broadband constellation Starlink.

Were talking to the Army about Starlink and Starship, she said.

Although the Army does not launch big satellites or sends crews to space, Starship can come handy for point-to-point transportation around Earth to deliver cargo in minutes in any part of the world.

According to Shotwell, SpaceX has already made this pitch to the U.S. Air Force. Pictured is the exterior of SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California as seen on July 22, 2018. Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

Gwynne Shotwell was recently invited to speak on a panel ofArmy leaders who discussed steps to modernize the force and injecting innovation in the realm of military procurement.

Shotwell talked on the panel on the last day of the Association of the U.S. Armys annual conference.

Although Shotwell did not mention Starlink during the panel discussion, the interest of SpaceX in securing the U.S. military as a customer has been apparent.

SpaceX has deployed 60 Starlink satellites this year and plans to launch thousands more in the coming years.Army officials said they would like to explore commercial LEO mega-constellations thatcan support the demands of the service for bigger capacity and lower latency communications.

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