Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend
by jwells89 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:41PM
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Starship and Superheavy have missed their aspirational timelines, but that’s largely moot when there’s nothing else with remotely similar capabilities in development. Even if it doesn’t fly until 2030 (which I think is unlikely) it’d still be lightyears ahead of the competition thanks to the larger industry deciding it didn’t particularly care to meaningfully advance past late 70s technology until very recently.
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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend
by justapassenger on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:34PM
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Yeah, they're ahead of competition.
But that doesn't mean it's a viable replacement for space stations.
Those are 2 totally different topics and it boggles my mind how people can write whole science fiction story around and argue that it's basically a fact.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend
by jwells89 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:56PM
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It’s just casual spitballing of possibilities with oversimplification for the sake of brevity. The main point is that any number of things can be set atop Superheavy as long as it has the general shape of Starship and some kind of attached propulsion, and there’s a lot that can be done with that level of lift capacity paired with a volume that large.