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This is my concern about SpaceX applying its superpower to Mars. Rapid prototype iteration on Mars is orbital time: you wait 2 years for the next launch window

This is my concern about SpaceX applying its superpower to Mars. Rapid prototype iteration on Mars is orbital time: you wait 2 years for the next launch window and then ~7 months for travel, blow something up and learn lessons, repeat next window. Hopefully they do some rapid iterating on Starship Moon missions and get some of the blowing up out of the way early.

dylan604 6y ago
I expect SpaceX to be prepped to launch multiple rockets per window.
- imglorp 6y ago
  In production, of course yes. In iterating development, you would expect one at a time so a bug would not affect a whole fleet.