SpaceX’s Starship Flight Test 2 To Have 1,000+ Upgrades & Rocket On Rocket Firing

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After the first Starship test flight in April, SpaceX is making more than a thousand upgrades to the rocket before it makes another attempt soon, according to details shared by its chief Mr. Elon Musk. Musk shared fresh updates about Starship in a Twitter space yesterday, where he outlined that SpaceX plans to change the staging profile of its rocket to increase the performance and improve the odds of the first and second stages of the rocket separating. Stage separation was the point of failure of the first Starship test flight, and the rocket continued to flip in the air without it taking place. SpaceX has also upgraded the rocket's engines and will add a steel plate to the pad to avoid damage from the thrust generated by the world's largest rocket.

Musk shared the details in a Twitter space yesterday, as he outlined that the Starship flight test 2  will feature more than a thousand upgrades. According to him, these also improve the odds of the test succeeding. SpaceX has a lot riding on a successful orbital test flight. It has invested billions of dollars into Starship, and the rocket also sits at the center of its plans to build out the Starlink satellite internet constellation and land the first humans on the Moon under NASA's Artemis program.

Musk believes the probability of a successful launch sits at sixty percent, depending on whether the first and second Starship stages successfully separate. Due to changes made by SpaceX for the Starship flight test 2, stage separation is even more important, according to the executive:

So we made a sort of late breaking change, that's really