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Re:Starship 10T minus 10 min by ACCount37 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:28PM (#45034415)
The stated goal was always to have a lot of ships, and also to have them be reusable.

Starship is a fuel-hungry beast - it can get to LEO by itself, but it needs a lot of tanker launches to go beyond. And if your goal is a Mars colony, you don't want to be limited to one launch per launch window.

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Re:Starship 10T minus 10 min by timeninja on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:42AM (#45036609)
Still, LEO is halfway to anywhere in the Solar System, so that's exciting.
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Re:Starship 10T minus 10 min by HPsquared on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:19AM (#45037195)
Also you can assemble things in LEO from multiple launches. Once you're up there, you have a lot more freedom in terms of size and shape.
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Re:Starship 10T minus 10 min by dotancohen on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:05PM (#45077992)
Halfway to anywhere, but the window to anywhere is quite small. For Mars, I think it's only a few weeks every two years or so. So having a lot of mass already halfway there when the window opens would be quite advantageous.
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