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Elon wants >1,000 Starships due to the Mars launch window, every 2 years. He wants to get a million+ tons of stuff there quickly. At 100T per Starship, and 1,00
by mchusma 5y ago
Elon wants >1,000 Starships due to the Mars launch window, every 2 years. He wants to get a million+ tons of stuff there quickly. At 100T per Starship, and 1,000 starships, it would take at least 20 years to get 1M tons there.
Source for 1M Ton Target: https://www.space.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-update-orbital-launch-2022 https://www.space.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-update-orbit...
- HWR_14 5y agoSo, Starship will be really cheap because they are reusable. Also, Starship will commit a larger fleet than all the planes that Boeing and Airbus combined make in a year to a more two decade long mission. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it does mean SpaceX will really have to scale up. Where is that capital going to come from? I'm not even sure even with all of Musk's personal assets and selling out on launches they'll get there for decades.