Elon Musk

Yeah, it is very big.

And what is the difference?

It's a little longer.

It's the same amount of pointy, but it's got a bit more length.

The interstage, you see that interstage section with kind of like the grill area?

That's now integrated with the boost stage.

So we do what's called hot staging, where we light the ship engines while it's still attached to the booster.

So the booster engines are still thrusting.

It's still being pushed forward by the booster of the ship.

But then we light the ship engines, and the ship engines actually pull away from the booster, even though the booster engines are still firing.

So it's blasting flame through that grill section, but we integrate that grill section into the boost stage with the next version of the rocket.

And the next version of the rocket will have the Raptor 3 engines, which are a huge improvement.

You may have seen them in the lobby.

Yeah.

Because we've got, like, the Raptor 1, 2, and 3.

And you can see the dramatic improvement in simplicity.

We should probably put a plaque there to also show how much we reduced the weight, the cost, and improved the efficiency and the thrust.

So the Raptor 3...

has almost twice the thrust of Raptor 1.

So you see Raptor 3, it looks like it's got parts missing.