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HOTEL MARS: SPACEX: THE STARSHIP PLAN FALLS BEHIND. ERIC BERGER, ARS TECHNICA. DAVID LIVINGSTON

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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HOTEL MARS: SPACEX: THE STARSHIP PLAN FALLS BEHIND. ERIC BERGER, ARS TECHNICA. DAVID LIVINGSTON
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I'm John Batser. Hotel Mars, episode N. David Livingston, Dr. Space himself of the space show is here as my colleague, co-host and co-pilot. And we're looking for Mars. Well, not immediately. Low Earth orbit will do. We welcome the senior space editor for Ars Technica magazine I most enjoy, Eric Berger, who is also the author

0:57.5

of two books about SpaceX and Mr. Musk's quest for to die on Mars. He puts it that way poetically.

1:05.3

Erica, a very good evening to you. I begin immediately with the story so far, which is nine tests

1:10.6

that have used different procedures,

1:14.9

either capturing the super heavy or not, either setting up a starship one or Starship 2 that tests

1:23.3

out how many tiles we can take off, how it performs in space, how it lands on the ocean,

1:30.5

all of those different iterations, test, test, test.

1:34.0

At this point, what is the prospect for SpaceX for getting what it wants from these tests?

1:39.7

Are we looking at nine more tests?

1:42.0

Three more tests?

1:43.0

Do we have a timeline?

1:44.1

Good evening to you, Eric.

1:45.6

Well, good evening. And I think the question is a great one, because we don't really have the

1:49.8

answer to it. You know, the most recent flight tests, I think, was part success and part failure.

1:54.3

The success came with the, you know, the relaunch of a first stage for the first time. So they

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