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You don't know that. Starship does not exist.

• chgs 2y ago
  a thing which can get into orbit and deploy objects exists
  • simiones 2y ago
    A thing which can nearly get into orbit. It never quite reached it (probably intentionally). But more importantly, the recent Starship tests ran with no payload whatsoever, and they definitely didn't deploy anything into orbit.
    • chgs 2y ago
      It reached orbital velocity, just in a suborbital direction. Had they pointed it a different way it would have been in orbit.
  • imtringued 2y ago
    I don't know what you mean by deploy objects, but even according to Musk himself, the current Starship version will not carry any payloads any time soon.
    • chgs 2y ago
      It’s already deployed objects - tiles, paint etc. The doors opened on IFT3. If it was life or death starship could put something into orbit right now. Obviously it’s not the best solution for that currently (compared to say an FH) - they want to get the reuse working, but that doesn’t negate the fact that starship has been to orbital height and speed (albeit on a suborbital trajectory)