FASTER, PLEASE: Starship could be ready to launch again in ‘six to eight weeks,’ Elon Musk says.

“The outcome was roughly in (line) with what I expected and, maybe slightly exceeded my expectations,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said during a Twitter Spaces chat on Saturday evening.

The April 20 liftoff of Starship, as the vehicle is called, was tremendously powerful, causing some damage to SpaceX’s launchpad in South Texas.

Musk said he was “glad to report that the pad damage is actually quite small,” though it would take “six to eight weeks” to get the infrastructure prepared for another launch. He later added that when the rocket’s engines — 30 out of 33 of which fired on for the flight test — reached “full thrust,” it “probably shattered the concrete.”

But: SpaceX Starship Effectively Grounded by FAA After in-Flight Explosion. “At this juncture, a month or two seems optimistic, considering that the full impact could take weeks and corrective actions could take much longer to implement.”