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All right, Right.

I'm excited, too.

More bats be if our rocket and announced the first, uh, privates astronaut Christa, a private citizen that's gonna go into deep space.

And, uh, I'm gonna start off with just I'm talking about be afar on how we got to this point.

So the purpose of space sex, the reason for the full creating space X was to accelerate the advent of humanity, becoming a space faring civilization to help advance rocket technology to a point where we could potentially become a multi planet species and a true space faring civilization.

So as we consider some of withdrawal, sel record the history of civilization, it's important to bear in mind like there could be some natural events or some man made event that end civilization as we know it and in life as we know it.

And so it's important that we tried to become a multi pence civilization, extend life beyond Earth, and to do so as quickly as we can.

That window of opportunity may be open for a long time, or it may be opened for a short time, but we should not assume that it is over for a long time.

We should take action, um, and become a multi planet civilization as soon as possible.

That's like with defensive reason.

I want to emphasize its its multi planetary, not a single planet, but somewhere else.

I want to become a multi planet civilization.

Um, I have, uh, life on on Mars Moon Venus, the moons of Jupiter throughout the solar system and then ultimately extend life beyond the solar system to other star systems.

I think that's the future that's incredibly exciting.

Gets a future that way.

We want.

And you know, this.

There's so many things that make people sad or depressed about the future.

But I think becoming a space frank civilization is one of those things that makes you excited about the future.

Makes you excited to get up in the morning.

This is something that look forward to, um it makes you glad to be a human being.

I hope I hope that people will see it that way.

That is, that is what that is.

The intent of beer far is to make people excited about the future.

So it's sort of an illustration of whatever you like on Mars Mars Base.

I want to talk about it.

It will show you like this where we were 10 years ago.

So we're almost at the 10th anniversary of off space excess first flight to orbit.

So that was 2008.

Yeah.

September 2008.

First time we made orbit, and we have three attempts before that did not succeed, but in here.

So?

So it had three attempts to resolve it.

And then the 4th 1/4 attempt reached orbit in September 2008.

And if we had not re service on that attempt, the space six would notice would not exist.

So that was the fourth and final, a possibility of reaching orbit.

That was very, very tough.

Launch emotionally.

Unfortunately, that did make it orbits.

And they're not long after that way went out first.

Um, really major massive contract or when the space station servicing contract.

And that was two things that were instrumental in space x er success.

Then.

That brings us to where we were earlier this year, which is the Lords of Falcon heavy.

So we went from Falcon one being just a little rocket that could launch only half a time to low earth orbit and had no reusability to welcome Heavy, which is the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two.

Um, with enough payloads over capability to but a fully loaded 7 37 passengers, cool has just fuel and luggage into orbits and were able to launch sort of a fun payload, which is, you know, a Tesla Roadster with.

It's sort of a storm an American to Mars orbit.

So we're able to launch, ate a quite a heavy payload to Mars orbit and bring the two side boosters back and landed back a natural, um, Center Court didn't land successfully, but we'll be able to do that, we think, in a subsequent march.

But it was a massive change over the course of 10 years to go from, just barely be able to get to all of it.

Two.

The most powerful launch vehicle in the world by a factor of two to have full reusability of off Bruce stage, Um, we've now done missions where we've launched the blue stage several times, which is like a great on.

Then we've been able to re fly out Dragon spacecraft.

So it's an enormous change over the course of 10 years.

And I think they were you.

Okay?

How many people predicted in 2008 that Space six would have done these things by 2018?

I think zero.

That's why I think zero like a must.

Sure zero.

But I am not aware of anyone who have made that prediction including me.

By the way, I would have said this is unlikely.

Um, nonetheless, in 10 years got from tiny rockets barely making into orbit to world's biggest rocket by far with reusable Bruce stages and sending a car to Mars, Um, they let people do instead like why we sent a car to Mars.

Obviously, that's been confusing.

Why would you send a car to Mars?

That's bizarre, But the real reason was we would just have something that was fun and that people could identify with and you normally, when a company praising you rocket, they like, just launched like a slab of concrete or something, it was like, Well, that's pretty boring.

So way wanted something that was that was fun, and that felt like you could maybe be there, and that's that was like the reasoning behind the car and the astronauts in the car, um, as a tribute to David Bowie and, um, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a few other things.

And there's also the Ask him a foundation Siri's etched in glass on in the glove compartment.

So that's Ah, in fact, ask him about the foundation.

Siri's is a key inspiration for Space X, so it's an update on beer for itself.

So the design of the production side of the Afar is different in some important ways.

From what I presented about a year ago, Um, overrule it is 118 meters long.

The payload is so a similar.

It's about 100 a metric tons.

That's 100 men funds too well, actually, technically a metric tons to all the way to Mars.

Because of orbital orbital refueling or audible over, it'll reach tanking so the F R is able to assign table, take 100 tons all way to the surface of Mars or to any well citizen Mars, maybe service.

But if you have a propellant depot on Mars, you're able to get from Mars to the asteroid belt, too.

Moons of Jupiter and kind of like planet in New Hope all way to the outer solar system.

So beer for is really intended as it's a planetary transport system that's capable of getting from Earth to anywhere in the solar system.

Um, as you established propellant depots along the way, Yeah, so we've increased the payload section to be over 1000 cubic meters.

I think it'll probably end up being probably something around 1100 cubic meters.

There are, um, forward actuated fins and rear actuated fins.

The way that be fr flies is somewhat counterintuitive.

If you apply, you're sort of normal intuition.

It will not make sense.

Um, I'll try to illustrate that in this presentation.

So there's the two Ford Actuated flaps.

And then there were two rear actuated wings or fins or flaps, depending what exactly comparable to anything else out there.

Um, but you kind of want you.

What kind of went for control surfaces T able to control the vehicle through a wide range of atmospheric densities on velocities, So the it the way it operates is more like a skydiver then it's been an aircraft, uh, almost the entire time when it's reentering it is just trying to break.

It's just trying to stop.

So it's It's doing everything it can to shed velocity while distributing that force over the most amount of surface area possible.

So the two of the three rare fins actuate their like giant wings actually requires an enormous amount of force to move those to move those wings.

It's sort of in the mega Newton class of force.

Um, the I think we should of been wait rings like structure is actually does not actuate on dit is not vertical stabilizer as may pare, it is actually just a leg.

So during the high velocity portion of entry, it's in the Lee of the Wind and it really doesn't have any aerodynamic purpose.

And it's really just a leg.

It looks the same as the other ones for purposes of the symmetry.

So this is a a true physics simulation off be afar reentering.

Yeah, So it is mostly just coming in like this, um, at a very high angle of attack.

Um, one of things that the general public is a tricky thing to understand is that orbit means you're zooming around the earth at a very high speed people.

It's lighting is counterintuitive where people think perhaps once you get to a certain altitude, gravity turns off.

This is not the case.

In order to go up and stay up, you have to move around the earth at approximately 25 times the speed of sound.

In fact, the space station is circling the earth every 90 minutes.

This is a very important concept.

To understand that orbit is is entirely about your speed.

Horizontal to the ground, parallel to the ground.

It isn't.

It is going up, and staying up is the only reason we need altitude at all is to get out of atmospheric craft.

So if Earth didn't have an atmosphere, you could orbit one meter or 3.28 feet above the ground.

No problem.

Well, a little dodgy, but it's technically possible.

Um, so So, yeah, if you look a TTE that simulation, you with playing that again.

Actually, yeah, So you see, it's basically coming in.

If this is the earth, the stages you if it's coming in like that and it's just using its entire body to break and and it's it's sort of goes like that it slows down and a minute pulls like a skydiver.

And then it writes itself, um, fires.

The engine lands on the fins.

This will look really epic in person, almost like guaranteed to be exciting.

They could see it sort of falling, falling body first for quite a while, as really quite quite gentle.

You're just sort of falling at terminal velocity for quite a long time.

Very gentle, full, just sort of like closing down.

And then it writes itself at the end.

Why is the engines Lance?

It's very counterintuitive.

It's not like anything.

If you're familiar with it's not like an airplane or yeah, and then, obviously, if you're landing on the moon, you don't need any aerodynamic surfaces at all because you just there's no there's no error.

You just need frustrates.

So next, the next steps with be a far are absolutely we're going to build it.

We are building it.

This it is a picture of the main cylinder section off the Afar, so far is nine meters in diameter.

It's really quite enormous.

That you get a sense of scale like that is the that's to scale that gives you a sense of the size of the vehicle.

Enormous.

Um, but we're we're already building it.

So we've built the first cylinder section.

That's the first actual cylinder section off the B F, our prototype, and we'll be building the domes and with the engine section soon.

And then this is the Rapture engine.

This is the Rapture engine that will power bi afar both the the ship and the booster.

It's the same engine, and this is a approximately 200 ton thrust engine that's aiming for a roughly 300 bar or 300 atmosphere.

Chamber pressure.

Um, and depending upon if you have it, hi.

Expansion ratio has the potential to be a Cabinet, a specific impulse above 380.

But it's and it's a stage combustion full flow gas, gas for those who are interested in technical details, Um, like, I really this is I'm really excited about this engine design.

I think the Space X propulsion team has done an amazing job on this engine design on, but the basic structure is an error like really basics Team has done a phenomenal job in design of this of this like super great guys.

But like this is this is a stupidly hard problem and basics.

Engineering is done.

Great job with this design.

Like I don't think most people, even in the aerospace industry, like, you know what questions to ask.

Like it took us a long time to even frame the question correctly.

But once we could frame the question correctly, the answer was, I wouldn't say easy, but the answer flowed once the engine.

Once the question could be framed with precision.

Framing that question with precision was very difficult.

Oh, yeah?

So this is the trajectory.

So we'll take off.

Have Bruce of separation going to talking orbits, do a translator injection, fly around the moon on, then come back on land.

Yeah, I should take, you know, basically, but four or five days and, um, very exciting.

Exciting indeed.

We'll do with a bunch of test launches without any people on board before having people on board to clear.

Well, that's it's gonna be very important to test this vehicle thoroughly before putting anyone on board.

Um, yeah, but I can't wait like I'm super fired up about.

This is amazing.

So funding before it's definitely a few question, and, um, you know.

That's, uh really where, um way need to see every possible means of funding.

Obviously, we've got, uh, launching of satellites.

We've got servicing the space station.

So we've been transporting cartoon from the space station for several years now.

And next year, we'll start transporting astronauts from the space station.

Um, we've got the starling, um, a global broadband system that we're developing, which wants to be a key source revenue.

But then, um, private, private customers or any any customers for the afar are incredibly helpful in funding development of the rocket.

Um, so that's, uh that's That's where I'd like to introduce wth e first paying customer of the afar.

So, uh, what?

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