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I worry that the business case for StarShip is similarly optimistic. Launching once per week, a single StarShip will carry 10,000 tons to orbit. Fully 50% of a
by JohnCClarke 3y ago
I worry that the business case for StarShip is similarly optimistic.
Launching once per week, a single StarShip will carry 10,000 tons to orbit. Fully 50% of all mass launched to orbit since Sputnik 1. Given the hopes for even more frequent launches with a fleet of StarShips makes me wonder who is going to pay for it all and why?
I do understand it's supposed to be much cheaper. But someone still has to pay. And that person still has to be sure that SpaceX - as a single, critical, supplier - won't eat their business model any time SpaceX chooses.
So I do hope there's a secret cunning plan I'm not aware of.
- kragen 3y agothis seems like the good kind of problem to have? not the kind of problem the shuttle had