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Elon Musk renames SpaceX's BFR rocket for interplanetary trip
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Nov, 2018
SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a fully reusable vehicle designed to
take humans and supplies to Mars and also to dramatically cut travel
time within Earth, is getting a new name, Starship, the company's CEO
Elon Musk has announced.
"Renaming BFR to Starship," Musk said in a tweet late on Monday.
This
two-stage vehicle -- composed of a Booster and a Ship -- is designed to
eventually replace the company's Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and the Dragon
spacecraft.
It is designed to service all Earth orbit needs as well as the Moon and Mars.
In
a tweet, Musk explained that Starship would be the name for the
spaceship/upper stage and Super Heavy would be the rocket booster
needed to escape Earth's deep gravity well.
All of Musk's 23.5 million followers on the micro-blogging site, were, however, not impressed.
While
one Twitter user called the new name "boring", another was left "pretty
disappointed". Some users liked the name change though.
On
September 17, SpaceX announced that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa
will be the company's first private passenger to fly around the Moon
aboard the company's BFR rocket in 2023.
In response to a reply
that unless this "starship" is sent on a mission to another star system
it cannot be called a "starship", Musk said that "the later versions (of
the rocket) will".
In a tweet over the weekend, Musk said that SpaceX is no longer planning to upgrade Falcon 9 second stage for reusability.
Instead of upgrading Falcon 9 for more reusability, SpaceX was now focusing on "accelerating BFR".
"New design is very exciting! Delightfully counter-intuitive," he said.
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