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  • It's a pleasure for me, as president of the International Astronomical Federation, to welcome all you today to the concluding session off the global networking for rum for the C 2017 which has bean years access in particular.

  • I want to thank the premiere was a real minister that means and lost.

  • My job is Father Stewpot and prisons.

  • Now let me present produce our distinguished speaker for today.

  • It almost is hunger.

  • See, you and ladies.

  • I know Space six alone found its space sex in 2002 with the girl off revolutionizing space technology and intimately inhabiting humans to become a multi planetary spaces.

  • Today it will provide an update on those plans.

  • First chair at USC 2016 in weather our last year.

  • Space sex as they're the number off first, including the first private company to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station.

  • The first entity to land an orbital class booster back on land and all on ships out of sea and the first to fly an orbital class boosted in addition to space.

  • Sex is also the CEO off test tomatoes and Sherman off Solarcity Please join me in one coming in on musk.

  • Yeah, All right.

  • Welcome to run.

  • And I'm gonna talk more about what it takes to become multiple species.

  • Um, and I just a just a brief refresher on why this is important.

  • I think fundamentally the future is vastly more exciting and interesting.

  • If we're a space faring civilization and a multi planet species that if we're not, you want to be inspired by things you wanna wake up in the morning, you think the future is gonna be great.

  • And that's what what being a space faring civilizations all about.

  • It's about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past.

  • And I can't think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars.

  • That's why so, becoming going to more detail on becoming multiple species.

  • This is the updated design for but the what?

  • We were sort of searching for the right name.

  • But the code name, at least, is be a far, um, and I that probably the most important thing that I want to convey in in this presentation is that I think we have figured out how to pay for it.

  • This is very important.

  • Um, in last year's presentation, you were really searching.

  • Well, what the right way.

  • How do we pay for this thing?

  • Went through various ideas, kicks daughter collecting underpants.

  • Um, he's didn't pan out.

  • Um, but But now we think way.

  • Think about a way to do it, which is to have you have a smaller vehicle.

  • So pre pay, um, but one that conserve that where the when that can do everything that's needed in the greater Earth orbit activity.

  • So, essentially, we I want to make our current vehicles redundant.

  • Wanna have one system?

  • 12121 booster in ship that replaces Falcon nine, Falcon Heavy and dragon.

  • So if we could do that, then all the resource is that are used for felt.

  • Nine.

  • Heavy and dragon can be applied to this system.

  • So that's really fundamental.

  • Let's see what progress have we made in in this direction?

  • It's less less thing sold the giant tech that's actually 12 meter tank, uh, and you can see the relative scale of it.

  • It's 1000 cubic meters of volume in sight.

  • That's actually Maur pressurized volume than 80 80.

  • Just that into perspective.

  • We developed a new carbon fiber matrix that's much stronger and more capable at choir than anything before, and it holds 1200 tons of liquid oxygen.

  • So we tested it successfully, tested it up, too.

  • It's designed pressure and then we're a little further.

  • So you want to see where it would break.

  • And, um, we have we found out we're break.

  • It's ah sure, about three feet into the air and land in the ocean.

  • We fished it out, and but now I got a pretty good sense of what it takes to create a huge carbon fiber tank that could hold cryogenic liquid.

  • That's actually extremely important for making a light spaceship.

  • The next key element is on the engine side.

  • We have to have an extremely efficient engine, so the rapture engine will be the highest trust.

  • Wait engine.

  • We believe off having any engine of any kind ever made.

  • We're already have now 1200 seconds of firing across 42 main engine tests.

  • We fired it for 100 seconds.

  • It could fire for much longer 100 seconds.

  • That's just the size of the of the test tanks.

  • And then the duration of the firing you're seeing right now is 42nd about 40 seconds, which is the length of the firing for landing on Mars.

  • The test engine current operates at 200 atmospheres to a 200 bar.

  • The flight engine will be at 250 bar and then we believe of a time we could probably get that to a little over 300 bar.

  • Uh, the next key element is propulsive landing.

  • So in order to land on my face like the moon where there is no atmosphere and certainly no runways or to land on Mars without disappears too thin to land even if they were on wasteland with with the wing, uh, you really have to get put pull propulsive landing.

  • Perfect.

  • So that's what we've been practicing with Falcon nine.

  • Uh, this is just a series of of landing, but I think he's quite mesmerising.

  • But we now have 16 successful landings in a row, and that's with, um so the It's six in a row, and that's with it with really, without any redundancy.

  • So Falcon nine lands on a single engine.

  • The final landing is always done with with a single engine, whereas the spear far will always have multi engine out capability.

  • So if you could get to a very higher liability with even a single engine and then you can you can land and then you can land with either of two engines.

  • I think we can get to, uh, landing reliability that is on par with safest commercial airliners, so you can especially count on the landing.

  • It's not like the hey want minimum pocket proper factor on landing the and it can land with also very high precision.

  • In fact, you believe the precision at this point is good enough for you, um, propulsive landing that we do not need legs for the next version.

  • It will literally land with so much precision it will land back on its launch mounts.

  • So the launched the launch rate exhausted being it has been increasing exponentially but particular When you take tanking, we're refilling on orbit into account and taking the idea of establishing a self sustaining base on Mars or the moon or elsewhere.

  • Seriously, you need 1000 openly thousands of ships and tens of thousands of, of, of of of re tanking refueling operations, which means you need many launches per day that the key to the you really need to be looking at in terms of how many landings are occurring you need looking.

  • Are you watching your calendar?

  • So while this is quite a high Lord trait that we're talking about here by conventional standards, it's so a very small one trait compared to what will ultimately be needed.

  • Um, but just for those who are really with having over launches occur every year, it's approximately approximately 60 over launches occur per year, which means if Space X does do something like 30 launches next year, it'll be approximately half of all over launches that occur on Earth.

  • The next thing is a key technology is automated rendezvous and docking.

  • So in order to re tank, refill the spaceship in orbit, you have to be able to rendezvous and dock with the space ship with very high precision and transfer propellant.

  • So that's one of things that we've perfected with Dragon Dragon one.

  • We'll do an automated rendezvous and docking without any pilot control to the space station.

  • Dragon One currently uses the Canada on for the final placement onto the space station dragon to which launches next year, will not need to use the kind of home dragon too well, directly duck with the space station and could do so with zero human.

  • And eventually you just press, Let's go and we'll dock.

  • Um, the dragon was also allowed us to perfect Ah, heat shield technology.

  • So when you enter at high velocity, uh, you're melting with anything.

  • The reason the reason meter is doing reach earth is they they mailed to disintegrate before they reach the ground.

  • Unless the very big So you have to have a sophisticated heat shield technology that can withstand unbelievably high temperatures.

  • And that's what we've been perfecting with Dragon and also a key part of of any planet collides colonizing system next night.

  • So, Falcon One, this is where we started out.

  • You know, a lot of people I feel really only heard Space six Rosalie recently.

  • So let me think It's a Falcon nine and Dragon just is instantly appeared, and that's how it always waas.

  • But it wasn't.

  • We saw that it was just a few people who really didn't know how to make rockets.

  • Um, and the reason I ended up being the chief engineer or chief designer.

  • There's not because I wanted to you.

  • It's because I could hire anyone.

  • Um, nobody Good.

  • We're joined.

  • Um, so, um, ended up being that by default, Um, and I messed up the 1st 3 launches.

  • The 1st 3 launches failed.

  • Unfortunately, the fourth launch, which was the that was the last money that we had a fucking won.

  • The fourth launch worked, or it would have been that would have been it for Space X.

  • Um, but fate like this that day.

  • So the fourth one's worked, and it's interesting.

  • Today is the is the ninth anniversary off that launch.

  • So I didn't realize that until until I was told that just just really today, But is ah, very emotional day, actually, um, but Falcon one is quite a small rocket when we're doing Falcon were really trying to figure out what is the smallest useful payload that would get over it.

  • Look, is something around half a ton toe orbit would be able to launch.

  • You know, that one decent size small satellite to north orbit and the sorry size Falcon one.

  • Um, but it's it's really quite small compared to Falcon nine.

  • So Falcon nine, particularly when you factor in payload.

  • Um, it felt nine is many times more.

  • It's not sort of on the order of 30 times more payload, then Falcon one at and Falcon nine has re use of the primary booster, which is the most expensive part of the rocket.

  • And hopefully soon Reese of the fairing the big nose cone at the front.

  • So we're thinking, probably get to something like somewhere between 17 80% reusability with the Falcon nine system and and hopefully towards and this year will be launching fucking heavy.

  • Uh, which is it's something that we ended up in a much more complex program than we thought.

  • It sounds easy.

  • Um, you let your falcon heavy.

  • Actually, it sounds like it should be.

  • Should be easy because it's too.

  • First stages of Falcon nine strapped on as boosters.

  • It's actually not, um, you have to really have to redesign, um, almost everything except the upper stage in order to take the increased loads.

  • Um, so Falcon heavy ended up being much more a new vehicle than we realized.

  • So it took us longer to get it done, but But the boosters have all now been tested and they're on their way to the Cape Canaveral.

  • And we are now beginning serious development of be afar.

  • So you can see that the payload difference is quite dramatic.

  • Um, be a far in, uh, fully reusable configuration without any oval refueling.

  • We expect to have a paler capability of 100 and 50 tons to look over.

  • And that compares to about 34 4 Falcon heavy.

  • We were just pasta, partially reusable, where this really makes a tremendous difference, isn't it cost which I'll come since on the latest slides?

  • Um, so let's go to the next line.

  • And just by the way, if yeah, so with, um be a far you could get a sense of scale by looking at the tiny person there.

  • Um, it's really quite quite a big vehicle.

  • Main body diameter is about is about nine meters or 30 feet, and it consists of the booster is lifted by 31 rafter engines that produced trust about 5400 tons, lifting 40 4400 ton vehicle straight up.

  • So then, just the basics about the ship 48 meter length dry master expecting to be about 85 tons.

  • Technically, design says 75 tons.

  • But inevitably, this mass growth, Um, and that ship will contain 1100 tons per pallet with a design sent design of 150 tones and return mass of 50.

  • You think of this as essentially combining the upper stage of the rocket with dragon.

  • It's like you felt benign up a stage and dragon were combined.

  • So as we are going to use these IRS in detail, But, uh, you've got us the engine section in the rear.

  • Ah, the propellant tanks in the middle, Uh, and then a large payload bay in the front.

  • And that payload based actually eight stories tall.

  • In fact, your foot you can fit a whole stack of felt when rockets in the payload bay.

  • Um, compared to design a short last time, you'll see that there is a small delta wing at the back of the rocket.

  • The reason for that is in order to expand the mission envelope off the of the spaceship.

  • Um, depending on whether you're landing or you're coming, you're entering a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere or a dense atmosphere, and depend on whether you have you're re entering with no, no payload in the front, a small payload or a heavy payload.

  • You have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

  • And so the Delta Wing at the back, which which also includes a sport flap, split flaps for pitch and roll control, allows us to control the pitch angle.