MAKING LIFE MULTIPLANETARY Some of our customers are conservative and they want to see BFR fly several times before they are comfortable launching on it, so what we plan to do is to build ahead and have a stock of Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles so that customers can be comfortable. If they want to use the old rocket or spacecraft, they can do that because we will have a bunch in stock but all of our resources will then turn towards building BFR; we believe that we can do this with the revenue we receive for launching satellites and for servicing the space station. SATELLITES The size of this being a nine meter diameter vehicle is a huge enabler for new satellites. We can actually send something that Fig.11. Docking with the International Space Station is almost nine meters in diameter to orbit. For example, if you want to do a new Hubble, you could send a mirror that has 10 MOON MISSIONS times the surface area of the current Hubble, as a single unit that does not have to unfold. You could send a large number of small Based on our calculations, we can actually do lunar surface satellites. You can actually go around and, if you wanted to, collect missions with no propellant production on the surface of the Moon. old satellites or clean up space debris—that may be something If we do a high elliptic parking orbit for the ship and retank in high we have to do in the future. The fairing would open up, retract elliptic orbit, we can go all the way to the Moon and back with no and then come back down, enabling launching of Earth satellites local propellant production on the Moon. I think that would enable that are significantly larger than anything we have done before or the creation of Moon Base Alpha or some sort of lunar base. It is significantly more satellites at a time than anything that has been 2017. We should have a lunar base by now. done before. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Fig.12. Establishing a Moon base Fig.10. Satellite delivery in Earth orbit It is also intended to be able to service the space station. I know it looks a little big relative to the space station but the Shuttle also looked big—so it will work. It will be capable of doing what Dragon does today in terms of transporting cargo and what Dragon 2 will do in terms of transporting crew and cargo. It can also go out to much further than that, like for example, the Moon. Fig.13. Lunar surface missions abridged transcript 9/28/2017 © SpaceX 2017 spacex.com/mars 7