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Starship has still not successfully flown once - if you disregard those testing flight to some 10 km height a few years ago - and yet the matter of the problem
by avmich 3y ago
Starship has still not successfully flown once - if you disregard those testing flight to some 10 km height a few years ago - and yet the matter of the problem and the pace of the company still makes it quite comfortable to talk about multiple launches per day.
More so, not talking about several launches per day is becoming more and more naive. Do you remember the Lockheed's ad where the page was vertically split, and on one side there was a rocket and on another - similarly scaled image of microphone, with wording like "while classical rocket companies launch, Elon Musk talks"? People rarely remember that ad, Lockheed is quite small in launch business these days in comparison to SpaceX. So, when - and if, if you want - those 10 launches per day will be achieved, will you get caught empty-handed? Or do you start preparing for that "pure fiction" right now, even just in case, so you'd have a viable business plan, a product riding on the possibility of massive and frequent launches, or will you retire at that time, as somebody who's left behind by the pace of the progress, with stories for grandchildren about how you programmed equivalent of COBOL on equivalent of DEC?
Our days pure fiction has a habit of becoming reality unexpectedly fast. Better be prepared.