NASA Artemis lead explains how SpaceX is rebuilding Starship between flights at a "blistering" pace he calls "unthinkable" in standard industry history Jeremy Parsons (Artemis lead): “And so as many of you know, SpaceX launched their first orbital flight with Starship Flight 14 in late September, and that was using their version 3 Starship. It had important upgrades from their previous version, and really, I mean, was a pretty phenomenal flight all in all." "The SpaceX and NASA teams have conducted a data review of the flight. They’re making excellent progress towards Flight 15, which I think will absolutely be awesome to see, because it could likely be a return to launch site and a catch of both the booster and Starship. Both vehicles have already been cryo-proofed. Improvements are being worked to address lessons learned from Flight 14." "As you know, SpaceX takes a test, learn, improve approach. And so we’re seeing lots of hardware, lots of quick changes, and an absolute blistering pace of production." "As an example, SpaceX identified the root cause of multiple Raptor engine relight failures on boost back and landing. They implemented several quick fixes for Flights 13 and 14 to improve their chances to reach more test objectives, and then they already have permanent hardware improvements coming for Flight 15, when they start flying an improved version of the Raptor." "These sorts of changes in this timeline would be unthinkable in standard industry history.”