Starship: the Endgame

SpaceX's Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built — designed to be fully reusable and capable of carrying 100 to 150 tons to low Earth orbit. Its stainless-steel hull is radical: cheaper and more heat-resistant than the carbon fiber competitors use.

Starship is designed for Mars colonization. Its huge payload capacity and full reusability are meant to drive the cost of reaching orbit far below today's rockets — the goal is to make launch cheap enough that large-scale settlement becomes affordable. Whether it hits that target depends on how often each ship can fly and be reused.