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As SpX Starship technology matures the unit weight to orbit should dialdown to going postal freight rate. Perhaps industry players need to specialize their div
by abudabi123 4y ago
As SpX Starship technology matures the unit weight to orbit should dialdown to going postal freight rate. Perhaps industry players need to specialize their division of labor away from competing against SpX if they can't seeing getting to capability parity within five or ten years. Deep space astroid belt mining operation using autonomous vehicles?
- cubefox 4y agoThat seems unlikely. It is not even clear whether reusing the Starship upper stage a few times will be cheaper than using several Falcon 9 upper stages once. After all, the engines are a lot more expensive and they need a heat shield. Anyway, SpaceX is only lower the price as much as the competition forces them to, they won't sell flights cheaper than necessary.