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🚨NEW: Elon Musk says Starship could eventually take SpaceX from 2,500 tons to orbit per year to more than 1 MILLION tons per year. "It's highly likely we do over 1 million tons to orbit per year, and probably closer to 10 million." "That's the kind of tonnage you... need to build a civilization on the Moon, Mars, and beyond." "If you can't deliver millions of tons to Earth orbit, you can't get the millions of tons that you need to the Moon and Mars to make us a sustainable multiplanet species." "It's arguably the hardest thing humanity has ever tried to do, and the Starship team has done an amazing job." ~2,500 tons/year today → 1,000,000+ tons/year with Starship 400× more mass to orbit. At 10 million tons/year: 4,000×. Elon Musk SpaceXshow more

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