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You have to remember that Starship is not going orbital any time soon, this is all for testing and development. I can guarantee you that the final version of St
by elteto 6y ago
You have to remember that Starship is not going orbital any time soon, this is all for testing and development. I can guarantee you that the final version of Starship will not be manufactured so haphazardly as these ones.
And they’ve already seen several failures with their prototypes so even with steel they have learning to do.
- eco 6y agoI'm sure it's unlikely now because of the failures you mentioned but Elon said they are aspirationally targeting an orbital flight with SN5 or SN6 before the end of the year. Elon had earlier said he thought it was possible to get orbital flights in 6 months but that was in September and was certainly also aspirational. It looks like SN5 will be doing the 20km test flight (whereas they probably planned on doing that with SN4 originally but then SN3 was destroyed in the pressure test failure).