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Reliable, viable Starship means the military can rapid deploy a force anywhere in the world in an hour or two. That would mean huge savings to the military in
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Reliable, viable Starship means the military can rapid deploy a force anywhere in the world in an hour or two.
That would mean huge savings to the military in naval fleet investment, overseas bases. The military would likely pay SpaceX ongoing contracts of tens of billion dollars per year for that exclusive nation-state capability.
The growing Starlink constellation will sustain huge business.
NASA would fund additional missions with the reduced launch costs.
Space tourism and fast global travel is worth another 10 billion dollars annually.
Then there's space telescopes and instrumentation.
Space industry is completely TBD. Here's a kooky idea: how much is antimatter harvested from the solar wind worth? Near earth asteroid capture and mining may be feasible. Moon mining may be on the table.
Militarization of space is an inevitability, and starship provides the payload to get equipment into space.
Starship might provide the launch ability to deal with space junk.
Anyway, you drop the cost of launch by 10x-100x, THINGS WILL BECOME POSSIBLE.