SpaceX company is preparing for a new test flight of the prototype of the giant Starship rocket system, which, according to the company’s president, Elon Musk, has a much higher chance of success thanks to the radical improvement in the system.

Musk said SpaceX has made more than 1,000 changes to Starship’s design since its initial test launch in April, when the rocket exploded near orbit, destroying the launch pad.

“So I think the next flight is much more likely than the previous one to work and the ship to enter orbit,” he said. Musk spoke to a reporter from Bloomberg on Twitter Spaces on Saturday. – Maybe about 60%; It depends on how well we do the separation of steps.”

According to Musk, this year, $3 billion will be invested in the implementation of the project to create the interplanetary transport system Starship, designed to conduct missions to the Moon and Mars and explore deep space.

Musk, SpaceX “It kind of made the last drastic change” It’s about how the separation of the Starship spacecraft and the superheavy accelerator occurred during flight. He noted that SpaceX decided to produce a “hot” split of the Starship and Super Heavy booster, in which the process was accomplished by starting the ship’s engines while communicating with the stored booster. “This is what the Soviets and Russia used in their space projects.” Musk added it.