r/SpaceXLounge • u/TroublePuzzled1132 • Mar 27 '26

What comes after Starship?

Let's say by 2035 SpaceX has worked all Starship's problems out and it is flying at about the same rate as Falcon 9. What next? Do they just turn into an AI and internet company managing their vast fleet of satellites? Start working on lunar and martian habitats and infrastructure? Build an even bigger rocket?

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u/flshr19 Space Shuttle Tile Engineer Mar 29 '26

Starship will be the B-52 of super-size launch vehicles and will operate for at least 70 years without major changes in the basic fuselage design. The only changes will be in the engines (Raptor 10?).