Elon Musk: “A crucial technology that we hope to demonstrate next year…”

“And now we made our two stage rocket look like many, many multi stage rocket and we get all of that performance and we can take that full cargo bay now wherever we want to go. Yeah, so A crucial technology that we hope to demonstrate next year is this orbital refilling. Much like aerial refueling, it's essential for being able to send significant payload to Mars.” (16:26–16:32)

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