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Bigger and Better SpaceX Starship in a Few Months
• Next Big Future - Brian WangThe SpaceX Starship will be upgraded. It will be bigger, better and more powerful.
The likely upgrades are they will be 10 meters longer. This will enable it to have more fuel and payload. The SpaceX Starship upper stage is 50 meters long. If this is made 20% longer then it would be 60 meters long.
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They will remove some unneeded parts and shift the position of the fins.
The steel will change form 3.97 millimeter thick to 3.6 millimeter thick.
SpaceX will use new Raptor engines.