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Starship has nowhere near the capacity to carry 400 passengers - people are not sardines you can just stuff into the rocket like you can satellites. You need pl
by tsimionescu 3y ago
Starship has nowhere near the capacity to carry 400 passengers - people are not sardines you can just stuff into the rocket like you can satellites. You need plenty of equipment per person for manned spaceflight. Much more so if you want to compete with business class flying.
Also, the total travel time would be horrible, since you can't have a rocket launch/landing facility anywhere near a city, and loading and unloading a rocket is an immensely time consuming process. Plus, you never ever load people into a an already fuelled rocket.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIt's not as if 40,000 feet is survivable without a flight suit and parachute, yet airliners don't provide those. And 400 people per starship is much more spacious than the area you get in economy class. Travel time is the main reason to use Starship. It might add 30 minutes extra on either end, but if it saves 10 hours of flight tine... Loading people into an already fueled rocket is standard operating procedure for every rocket except Falcon.