{"id":18768,"date":"2017-10-15T00:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/elon-musk-will-chat-about-his-big-rocket-plans-with-spacex-fans-on-reddit\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T00:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:49:56","slug":"elon-musk-will-chat-about-his-big-rocket-plans-with-spacex-fans-on-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/elon-musk-will-chat-about-his-big-rocket-plans-with-spacex-fans-on-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk will chat about his big rocket plans with SpaceX fans on Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_369268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369268\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-369268\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171013-bfr-launch-630x364.jpg\" alt=\"BFR launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171013-bfr-launch-630x364.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171013-bfr-launch-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171013-bfr-launch-1260x728.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171013-bfr-launch.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-369268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows SpaceX\u2019s BFR launch vehicle blasting off from a floating pad. (SpaceX via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two weeks after SpaceX founder Elon Musk updated his vision for a monster rocket designed to take settlers to the moon and Mars, he\u2019s taking questions from his fans today&nbsp;during a Reddit \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d session.<\/p>\n<p>Musk says the chat starts at 1 p.m. PT on Reddit\u2019s r\/Space forum.<\/p>\n<p>As a foretaste, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell provided further details about the company\u2019s yet-to-be built BFR (\u201cBig Falcon Rocket\u201d) on Wednesday at a forum presented by the Stanford Student Space Initiative, with venture capital guru (and SpaceX board member) Steve Jurvetson hosting a Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p>Shotwell\u2019s talk fleshed out Musk\u2019s plan&nbsp;to employ the BFR not only for sending payloads and people to Mars, but also for moon trips and point-to-point suborbital travel. Afterward, Jurvetson turned to the Reddit community to capture the high points of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few snippets from Shotwell to chew over in advance of Musk\u2019s AMA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The BFR would be produced at a new waterfront facility in Los Angeles, because the cost of transporting rockets from SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 factory in Hawthorne, Calif., would be prohibitively high. More production sites could be built near BFR launch sites.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX\u2019s yet-to-be-completed launch facility near Brownsville, Texas, would be a perfect place for launching the BFR.<\/li>\n<li>The spaceship will be designed so that most people will be able to withstand the G-forces that arise during a suborbital point-to-point ride, but the experience will be \u201csportier\u201d than an airplane trip.<\/li>\n<li>A scaled version of the BFR\u2019s methane-fueled Raptor rocket engine has been tested, and SpaceX is working on a larger version.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket is ready for its maiden launch from Florida in a December time frame. The schedule depends on pad availability, including a shift of Falcon 9 launches from Launch Complex 39A to the repaired Launch Complex 40.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX is pressing ahead with work to build a satellite constellation that could provide global internet access. Shotwell said the company can fund BFR development as well as the satellites, which are being developed at facilities in Redmond, Wash. \u2014 but it might take some creative financing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>This report has been updated with the schedule for Musk\u2019s Reddit AMA session.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows SpaceX\u2019s BFR launch vehicle blasting off from a floating pad. (SpaceX via YouTube) Two weeks after SpaceX founder Elon Musk updated his vision for a monster rocket designed to take settlers to the moon and Mars, he\u2019s taking questions from his fans today&nbsp;during a Reddit \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d session. Musk says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2873,291,1045,3575,367,4950,4815,316],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bfr","tag-commercial-space","tag-elon-musk","tag-interplanetary-transport-system","tag-mars","tag-mars-colonial-transporter","tag-reddit-ama","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}