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Elon Musk is set to reveal a stunning presentation of SpaceX Starship, the fully reusable space vehicle that will sit on top of SpaceX’s SuperHeavy.

This week we welcome on Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut to talk about the SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy programs, his experiences in Boca Chica and what we can look forward to with SpaceX's Moon and Mars plans.

After the first successful Starhopper untethered hop of 20 m, a Starhopper 2nd hop could go as high as 200 m. Furthermore, it seems that we can finally see some real NASA and SpaceX collaboration happening with regard to the development of Starship / Super Heavy.

In this episode of SpaceX in the News, we evaluate the newly designed raptor engine; we take a look at the progress being made to Starhopper and its launch site down in Boca Chica, and talk about Starship's and Super Heavy's future.

In June Elon Musk said that SpaceX will soon be producing 500 of the new Raptor rocket engines a year. Since Starship and SuperHeavy together use only about 40 Raptors, it leads to a big question: What will SpaceX do with all of them?

The short answers are: Lots of Starships, Starship 2.0, Starlink, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

While it's still a couple of years out at least, SpaceX has been doing the important paperwork detailing their plans to launch Starship and Super Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

In this Episode of the Case for Mars, we discuss SpaceX's proposed timeline to send humans to Mars.