Brian Wang SpaceX’s Starship Block 3 (aka Version 3 or V3) is a huge shift from prototyping to scalable mass production. SpaceX is focusing on enhancing reliability, reducing costs, and enabling high-volume manufacturing to support ambitious goals like frequent Mars missions and expanding the Starlink constellation. Key advancements include automated assembly processes, particularly for the heat shield tiles. Production facilities at Starbase, Texas, are being upgraded with the massive GigaBay structure (approximately 700,000 sq ft and costing $250 million) is designed to accelerate output. Elon Musk has posted abut making 10,000 rockets per year. In 2025, Elon said @SpaceX is tracking to a Starship launch rate of once a week in ~12 months. This should be sometime late in 2026. A reminder that rapid evolution of technology is the only way to win. Those who don’t innovate rapidly are doomed to fail. The next Starship launch is version 3, which is radically better than version 2. Then, in a few years, V4 will double the payload of V3.