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Musk recognised the challenges SpaceX encountered when developing the Raptor 2.

He noted issues with melting in the thruster chambers as an example.

Musk spoke to a swarm of reporters and fans.

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Elon Musk said on Thursday that despite a slew of technical and regulatory roadblocks, he is 'very sure' that his new SpaceX Starship, which is aimed for missions to the moon and Mars, would reach Orbit around earth for first time this year.  At his firm's Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, the gazillionaire SpaceX founder and CEO met a swarm of the journalists and fans for a presentation that blended a high-tech pep rally with big-screen visuals and a question-and-answer session.  It happened nine months after commercial Calif. aerospace enterprise launched and landed a Transporter experimental rockets in a test mission for the first time after four prior landings efforts resulted in disasters.

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Musk noted that creating the 'Raptor 2' engines for SpaceX's Very Falcon rockets, a recoverable upcoming launching rocket planned to deliver the Starship spaceship to orbit, has been tough. He noted issues with extreme heat melting inside the thruster chambers of the engines. 'We're really near to fixing it,' he said, adding that he expects to increase production to around seven or eight engines per week by next month, and to create a new Starship and booster every month by the end of the year. 'At this point, I'm quite sure that we'll go to orbit (with the Starship) this year,' said Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, an electric vehicle company. 

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The FAA is forced to determine in the following months how a scheduled create there represents a substantial impact on the environment to the area - including an adjacent wildlife reserve - and, as a result, whether expanded operations at Boca Chica must undergo a far more extensive study before they can be licenced. EIS studies, or environmental impact statements, can take years to complete and are frequently the subject of litigation. He noted that such a change would result in a six- to eight-month delay. In any event, SpaceX is still aiming for a 2023 launch of what it calls the 'world's first private lunar expedition,' which will transport Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and a dozen artists around the Moon and back to Earth aboard a Starship.

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