People see the prototypes blow up and think FAIL! That's right, failure is the teacher, understanding failure leads to success. That's why SpaceX iterates so fast. With the "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of the first high altitude prototype, Elon responded, "That's OK, we got the data we needed."

If Starship actually works, the USA will have such an advantage in space technology. One that other countries can't hope to match for decades.

Thanks CNBC, for giving Elon and the SpaceX crew the credit they deserve! 🚀🌎

If StarShip really works it *WILL* be the holy grail of all society

Tesla, SpaceX, Musk, and all of his talents are a blessing to this country. Hats off to the guy for working tirelessly on all of these World-changing projects.

2:47 current configurations of Starship have 6 engines, not 7. 3 Sea-level optimized Raptor engines and 3 vacuum optimized Raptors. SpaceX has also considered switching to a 9 engine Starship with 3 more vacuum optimized engines in the future.

Wow this is excellent. So excited for the future of SpaceX. As a through and through NASA lover, I’m beginning to love SpaceX’s mission too. How I wish my Grandpa was still here to see it’s success. 🖤 💫 🚀

Big respect for CNBC making this great video about starship and spacex, using Elon’s clips to talk for himself very good decision. Using simplified rocket engine models to explain the science. Very impressed

I hope everyone understands it how important SpaceX's and Elon's mission is by now. Very excited about the future!

It is so funny to see old media companies not understanding that fail fast fail early is a paradigm that helps development way more than the old school NASA style development where you spend an eternity designing, creating tests to proof that the thing is within spec, spending another eternity on building the thing testing all the way before we can even think about flying anything. The time that SpaceX spend on the development of Starship puts the SLS to shame, not only has it been way cheaper it also has been moving way quicker than NASA could ever dream of. Sure some ships went bang on landing which was kind of expected, its not a problem as it helps the teams designing and building the thing figure out where the problems are so they can be solved way faster than you could if you designed everything for years and years without ever how the things work together in the real world. Compare Starliner with Dragon capsules, SLS with Starship and overal SpaceX with any government funded rocket development outfit and you will see that the fail fast fail early way of working is way better and a lot more economical than the old school design it all on paper solution. Unfortunately most journalists have never worked a day in their lives and see anything that goes bang as a setback and a failure where in the real world any engineer will tell you that as long as it is affordable and safe to do so testing the real thing in the real world will provide so many more insights and design clues than yet another design review and another group of big brains trying to poke holes in your design ever could. But for that you would actually have to understand how things are build and designed in the modern world which is so far away from the old media journalists world that you get these kinds of frankly dumb reports about setbacks and failures which is the exact opposite of what we where actually seeing.

I think that one of the best side effects of starship is that it will force others to adapt or perish in this new paradigm of space activity.

I really want to see Elon and spacex make it. It’s refreshing seeing someone get government funding actually meeting deadlines and pushing the envelope unlike the old guard like Boeing that always milk the government for everything they can and always behind schedule. Elon’s pace alone is admirable

Falcon 9 is the holy grail of rockets so far No one is even close

A few hundred years ago it would take months to travel across the oceans and they never would’ve thought that we’d be flying in planes like we do now. And I feel the same way about space travel.

These prequel episodes of “The Expanse” are getting really good!

While it looks like others have corrected some of the errors in this video, some things to think about for how Starship will really change things: 1. You mention the revolution coming with Starlink. Starlink can do so much. Rural broadband. Mobile broadband. Broadband on airliners. Broadband on ships. I think we may see the ground based black box where we can see why an airliner crashed without retrieving a physical black box. We may see an airliner bailed out of an emergency with ground crews accessing high bandwidth data from an airliner in real time. We may see drones with Starlink access beaming around gigapixel resolution video streams. We are already seeing Starlink helping in the Ukraine. We will see Starlink used to talk to other spacecraft. If you have ever worked on a space project or paid attention to one, they usually have limited windows to talk to ground stations and bandwidth is only so much. Starlink can remove those limits with super high bandwidth space based laser communication and distributed radio to multiple ground stations when the bandwidth is needed. The deep space network could go to laser based and relay through Starlink to get to the ground. I mean any rural home, any RV / trailer, any plane, ship, spacecraft, etc could be integrated into the Starlink network and there would be great advantages of doing it. This is huge. Their main competitor, Oneweb, was launching on Russian rockets and that is not a viable solution anymore. You can't just switch to another rocket at the 11th hour to get the rest of the constellation up. SpaceX makes the rockets it launches Starlink on, so they are good. 2. Another point missed with Starship and Starlink is Elon Musk said that Starship will be launching Starlink V2 where right now Falcon 9 is launching Starlink V1.5. He specifically said that Falcon 9 is not capable of launching Starlink V2 at all. Starlink V2 after talking with the experts is likely to be large, chunky satellites with vastly better brute capability over Starlink V1.5. There isn't a whole lot of new magic expected with Starlink V2, but when something is designed around a launcher, especially around a big launcher like Starship, you can't just move that to a different rocket. There are actually a lot of reasons and it is not just sheer size that will be an issue. There are other things like vibrations, G-loadings, and communication with the launcher. At this the war in Ukraine has led to delays in the Starlink V2 program. Hopefully Starlink V2 will be ready for battle when it flies as this is just the reality we face moving forward unfortunately. 3. You mention a new space station with Starship. While NASA hasn't really considered Starship for space station building, which is unfortunate, the maximal thing you may be able to do with Starship and 42 Raptor 2 engines getting you into orbit is possibly a 300+ tonne space station all in one go. As you mention, doing a whole space station in a single launch is vastly more cost effective than many smaller launchers and there are actually many reasons for this such as labor costs (astronauts building things in space is astronomically expensive while building things on the ground by people who drive their personal vehicles into work is far cheaper) and economies of scale of one big pressure vessel over many small pressure vessels linked together through bulky docking ports. (Surface area is a square factor while volume is a cubic factor.) There is a big performance hit for flying Starship back to Earth, which is why no second stage has been recovered to date. Having a stripped down Starship bottom half fly a giant space station that also acts as a fairing with no plans to fly that Starship bottom half back, maybe instead refill it for a one way deep space mission, frees up a lot of mass budget. Also flying SuperHeavy to an ocean based platform instead of doing a boost back to the launch tower frees up a lot of mass budget. Raptor 2 with a 42 or even 45 engine configuration and stretched tanks would be able to move a huge amount of mass to orbit. When you put it all together, this is how I end up with a 300+ tonne space station to orbit all in one go. 4. Space based manufacturing. One place in particular where Starship can change things is ZBLAN fiber. So while Starlink changes how we communicate looking up, ZBLAN fiber will revolutionize how we communicate on the ground. It can be used to move vastly more data over much greater distances without regeneration. This is especially important for deep sea cables as instead of having a few strands as that is all you can get the amplifiers for built into the cable, you can have hundreds or even thousands of strands go across oceans in a single cable, each carrying a bunch of channels somewhat dictated by the length of the cable as there is a V curve across the spectrum dictating which channels will go the farthest, so when you start going really far, the outer channels can no longer make it. But still you are talking 10x the distance with no repeaters over existing fibers made on Earth. This gets into if you want to say span the Pacific Ocean, instead of building the cables to have power lines and signal amplifiers built in, you build a large underwater container to host a vast array of amplification gear for hundreds or even thousands of fibers and then build an ocean current or geothermal renewable power system to get the power in-situ to run that underwater station. Maybe you also have a facility in Hawaii. But still with each facility thousands of km apart, it is easier to justify these underwater facilities and harder to justify building power and amplifiers into the cables directly. Even if you ship power in the cable, it could support 10x the fibers as the repeaters can be spaced 10x further apart, thus requiring 1/10th the power. There are probably many other places where space based manufacturing can take place with Starship cost economies. 5. Space based biomed. There are lots of things that are hard to do in gravity. Biomed seems like a place where there is a lot of stuff we will struggle to get the right thing to build on Earth, but in a micro-gravity environment, we can get the right mixing and reactions to happen to make things basically impossible to make on Earth, at least in a manner suitable for mass production. The above ZBLAN fiber is a perfect example of something that can't be made on Earth because things just don't mix right in gravity. Also in biomed, there is a lot of stuff where it may be possible to do it on Earth, but we just figure it out for making something at an industrial scale in space first, so that is what we end up doing. Pills can be really expensive as it is, so good profit margins can be had by manufacturing it in space and then bringing it back down as long as space provides an advantage you don't have on Earth. 6. We can get a lot of space based science done with Starship. No longer do you spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get something light and small enough to fit into an existing expensive launcher and it to its destination. Instead just use what you already have for the most part designed quickly to fairly standard engineering designs and launch it up. Instead of say decades of trying to get a JWST telescope right for a one time launch and zero servicing ever, you send up a much bigger telescope on Starship built a lot more like how you would build a ground based telescope today in terms of engineering difficulty. Ground based telescopes are designed and built much faster and more cheaply than say a JWST telescope while at the same time being much larger, just limited by atmospheric interference, except this thing will be going into space where there is no atmospheric interference, making it a far more capable instrument. Then with Starship you plan for servicing over time over and over again on a regular schedule. So incrementally improve the telescope over time and fix any problems that came up because the focus was more on getting it done quickly with the understanding it would be serviced later than take an eternity trying to get it just right because if even the slightest isn't absolutely perfect, the telescope project will either be all for not or break prematurely and that will be it, just another piece of space debris. 7. Just as a bit of a catch all, there is really a lot you can do with Starship once it is flying with the promised cost efficiencies and ability to land and reuse the vehicles. It may not be the only thing we fly, especially as space is vast and chemical engines are relatively inefficient, but we can't really think about this until we have a cost effective way of getting into orbit. Starship is that key to getting into orbit to enable the rest. Even in sub-orbital flights, Starship can be interesting and possibly a game changer.

Really good overview for the general public IMO. I think you've done an excellent job of hitting the major technical points without exceeding layperson understanding.

They are working very hard to deliver the prototype. I honestly hope the Starship do reach orbit and do re-enter atmosphere. This would really be a seminal moment for Space exploration. I have some doubts of technical nature, like how the body of the booster and the ship can resist to the acoustic energy produced by 30+ Raptor 2 engines. Or if the thermal shield do resist to the heat of reentry. SpaceX has been able to hire and train some of the best rocket propulsion scientists, so they will likely able to solve these challenges...

Starship will revolutionize human space capabilities, we will have the era of space exploration before Starship and after Starship.

One more benefit of methane over kerosene is that methane can self pressurize. Most rockets using kerosene have to carry a tank full of high pressure helium to pressurize the tanks. With methane, some of the liquid methane can be evaporated and sent back to the tank to keep it pressurized.

Finally SpaceX is in the mainstream news.

People should realize by now, how pivotal and inspirational Elon Musk is. In the future he will be known as a hero like Louis & Clark, and Neil Armstrong. He may not be the actual explorer, but he’ll be the largest contributor to space exploration.

WOW CNBS with something truthful related to Elon. Its a FUD miracle!

Might be the holy grail for the human race the capabilities that it would bring would change the world forever

I'm not big on "space travel" and am generally more concerned about being able to feed my family more than about scientific endeavors....however even I have to admit this stuff is just straight up impressive. A single private company is becoming more capable of space travel than NASA.

I like how it's not even been a half year and so many things have already changed significantly. This one's good.

Going through school right now to work in the growing space industry. Its a golden age

You make it sound like the early Starship prototypes that experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly were in some way a failure. They were not. They were the product of Iterative Design, a deliberately chosen technique that has placed SpaceX leaps and bounds ahead of Blue Origin and all other rocket design companies. You make it, you test it, you break it... then you make it better! Breaking is part of the process. NOT a failure.

'mixed bag' and 'technical problems' yeah.. not sure what you expected from a prototype.

Absolutely solid video CNBC. Well done - I don't usually use emojis but here you go - 👏

Elon’s in a very unique position to be able to talk about outrageous ideas for space exploration since he’s got a string of achievements no other person or company can boast about. I admire Sierra Space’s objectives a lot but they simply don’t have the same powerful stories as SpaceX!

Look at CNBC finally reporting on this. A year ago would have been nice.

This video completely missed the key major point and enabling technology that SpaceX will develop in order for Starship to work beyond LEO - orbital refueling. Orbital refueling at this scale has never been attempted before and being able to have a fully refueled spacecraft in LEO is game changing and a departure for how we've done space operations since human spaceflight began.

I really dont get the Elon Musk haters. Look at what he is doing and what he wants to achieve. There is no one else, probably, as close to him in this race.

Thanks CNBC, for the positive news.

An informative and timely video. Thank you CNBC.

StarShip is the current goal. I think the next goal to truly make Mankind multi-planetary will be to build ships in orbit. Earth's gravity imposes to heavy a toll for launching the needed quantity of resources per launch. Methane does look like the best choice of fuel due to it's observed presence in our solar system. I hope Raptor is just the design gateway to even higher performance engines. While there are many problems we need to address on Earth, I believe this is also very important and Space X deserves support to continue these programs.

Excellent production, well done CNBC

Great Work, Presenting True, Accurate, & Detailed information about SpaceX. 👏 👏 👏 👏 TAD

Yes, surprisingly good video from the mainstream media. Usually they are so much worse than videos from youtubers who actually know what they are talking about, but this vid can hang with them. Well done CNBC!

Elon is the one who can change things for betterment of human civilization and think about future of humanity.

A single Starship's cargo/crew volume is more than the entire space station internal volume that took more than 10 years to assemble in space. That's the kind of difference it's going to make. ISS volume 1000 m^3 while starship payload volume is 1100 m^3

It’s going to let us boldly go where no humanity has ever gone before

Eject High velocity gas* from the nozzle which propels the rocket, NOT high pressure. The pressure at exit is not far from atmospheric pressure depending on its expansion condition.

Kudos on keeping the FUD out of the piece. Major Tesla fan boy here, and I was not triggered once. Glad I gave the video a view.

CNBC finally caving into the idea that Elon is doing well by us

Probably the best thing I've seen from NBC anything in a long time

I think it is impossible for financial people to understand that the test flights were not meant to land. The thought of building such a craft and just crashlanding it... "But think about all the money!!!!". It's about data!!

I’m hopeful that SpaceX will get approval on the 28th. However, I suspect Bezos will probably attempt something incredibly petty to stall the approval process.

I look forward to the day this giant metal can goes orbital. It can't happen fast enough in my opinion. I want to believe

For people asking why starship has more than twice the thrust of the saturn V but less payload: 100 tons is the payload for starlink, which has an high orbital inclination. For an equatorial orbit the payload is 150 tons. And that's for V1 starship, there will be a stretched version with 200 tons of payload when reused and 300 tons when expended.

@CNBC what an amazing job, Loved the video!

First Edit: IMO the regulatory problem is under represented, Its currently the number one issues that prevents starship from launching.

Very good coverage thank you for giving credit where credit’s due

The future is now! Seriously can't understate how important the projects musk works on are. Multi planetary life, world wide internet access, electrifying the world and getting offf fossil fuels, and so much more. Amazing stuff!

Great inspiring presentation. Hope NASA TV will broadcast it as well as NPR.

How fast technology advances, congratulations to all involved in the process of rockets and the engines that drive them.

Starships success will mean to life what it meant when life crossed from ocean to land.

Some mis information Starship uses 6 raptors not 7. 3 Sea Level and 3 Vacuum. Can carry 300 Starlink not 400. Uses Methane because its able to be produced on mars. Not for cost

Very well reasearched. Well done!

wow this is so futuristic. I can't wait to see what he unfolds of this in a few years.

Don’t bet against Elon 👽

I wish cnbc made more content like this...

I can watch Elon videos all the time! It is so nice to watch someone do smart and inspiring things that are kind of close to their schedule! Total opposite of listening to politicians who never get around to doing what they promise and rip us off continuously!

The only full flow full stage engine to ever fly. The most complicated ever built

The greatest visionary of our time.

Thanks GOD for Elon... Thank GOD he came to America... Thank GOD someone with some real sense and compassion got rich. We all need to thank GOD for Elon and everyone on the team that is keeping America the leader in space technology. If SpaceX wasn't here we wouldn't even have a ride to the ISS and if Russia really bails on the ISS then SpaceX is the only people who has the tech to go boost the orbit in a timely fashion. So Thank GOD for Elon an his Team.

Wow an accurate piece about spacex! cant believe it. Good, looking forward to more in-depth videos like this.

Thank you Russia for stepping aside and giving Elon the opportunity to throw his broom sticks into space.

Space is the place. SpaceX is making it happen, and so I support them in this human endeavor.

So essentially these are Rockets with rockets.. On top of rockets. Chopsticks and those welcome back embraces is stuff from when we were growing up, like the jetsons, transformers, Ironman, Flash Gordon. What a time to be alive! 😎😃

Starship will become amazing and take us beyond our imaginations. Thank you Elon for assembling the most capable team this world has ever seen! With your leadership we will build a civilization on Mars and beyond!

I love Elon

Game changing like Computer, Internet, automobile, electricity. Space Shuttle = Billion a launch, twice a year, seven at a time. Starship = 10 million a launch, once a week, eventually once a day, 100 at a time. Thousands of people a year into space, huge orbiting space stations, colony on Moon/Mars and travel beyond. Point to Point travel around the earth in about 1/2 hour. Actually game changing like when we first came out of the cave.....

This is actually impressive and genius . I would love to go up in it . Bucket list .

It’s nice to see the improvement of the space x and tech innovations etc🙏👍❤️😎😎😃😃

Many people fail to understand how much of a game changer about 100tons to LEO will be especially if they can fully reuse rockets with the only main cost being only the fuel

That was cool of Elon Musk to send Starlink to Ukraine. Got it there fast as hell too.

Маги, страхотно видео! Добър репортаж. Продължавай в същия дух.

Just to put the cost efficiency of SpaceX into perspective: SpaceX spent several dozens of millions building their launch tower in Boca Chica in less than a year. NASA's SLS launch tower cost over 10 times that at 1 billion and took over 10 years to finish. NASA may want to look into creating something similar to the Artemis private company lunar lander program for construction of ground equipment...

That engine scheme looks awfully like Tim Dodd's one...

There will be millions of people who does not believe in Musk. Nothing is perfect. But we believe in Musk. Millions of us believe in his Course and thats is the most important thing. You cant make everyone happy. Lets Go starship. Lets conquer the universe together.

I feel his heavy rocket would supply a space station where we build a very large ship that goes to other planets as in Star Trek. This would allow us to build space stations out in space like bus terminals.

Me seeing 7 engines: What have I just watched? Can I even trust this?😂

Even tho i dont like US government, i would rather US take the advantage in space technology than china

All rise for King Elon 👑🚀

Greatly excited to explore

Amazing production by CNBC honoring @Elon Musk and @SpaceX.

history will show, but in my opinion elon is responsible for the break through of electrical mobility against the rule and ongoing sabotage of big oil. and that is just a sideshow aside his main projects. he should be given some credit for that

IF Starship is succesful it will not only be beneficial to SpaceX but the whole space community

Starship may be the most important and exciting project anywhere on earth right now.

The audio is so insane low?

Starship is not just big, it is huge... Size does matter especially when you are flying to Mars.

Even if Starship fails, Falcon 9 is already one of the best rockets on Earth, and the Raptor 2 engines are AMAZING.

Nice to see CNBS switching gears on Elon and his teams, a few years more and maybe it will become actually CNBC

After so much cynicism in the space industry, especially after the Colombia and Challenger disasters, this is a truly worthy goal to aim for.

Reusability is the future!

I really hope starship succeeds.

2:10 beautiful footage

at around 9:30, the engines don't necessarily release high-pressure gases, just high velocity. Ideally, the pressure of the exhaust would be the same as the pressure outside, you lose efficiency if the exhaust is higher or lower pressure than the ambient pressure