SpaceX's Starship undergoes 1000+ upgrades ahead of next launch.

SpaceX has made over 1,000 changes to the design of its Starship rocket since its first test flight in April, which ended in a controlled destruction of the vehicle. The company is taking steps to ensure that the failure of the vehicle's two stages to separate as planned does not recur on the next flight. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said the company has made a significant change to the way stage separation works, using hot staging, which should boost Starship's payload-to-orbit capacity by around 10%.