It's seems that Starship may revolutionize travel on this planet for a fraction of the time and cost of typical air travel.
Flight 7 is scheduled for this Friday at 5pm est
Once you have a rocket in space, transportation is cheap.
Cool concept...but let’s not get out over our skis.
The Starship program is a looong way from having multiple facilities around the globe for launch, catch, assembly, refueling, maintenance, inspection, security...not to mention cargo handling.
One will eventually crash and then general safety considerations will become paramount.
Cool...I want my Amazon deliveries coming down in my front yard via rocket! To heck with those noisy drones.
1200 TONS of fuel? Wait until the greenies put the pencil to that. How many Priuses would that power for a decade?
Are we talking suborbital hops?
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If SpaceX doesn’t need to transport humans (and thus not need complex systems to ensure human comfort and survival) it can easily make costs much lower than a 787
We will soon find the same is true for military aircraft and China and others may be far ahead of us on this score.
1,000 people per rocket?
I am sure there are a lot of people who want to get to Europe quickly. I am not one of them.
The issue with fast delivery of goods is where is he going to land…and then getting the return rocket back home.
While, I dont think we will see this in the next 20 years…I love the thinking that goes into it.
Lots of interesting military applications. Getting the vehicle back would be the difficult part.
since it seems “suborbital hops” might be the thing, rail launches, as once depicted in a ‘60’s gerry anderson show, and since picked up in a NASA cartoon, might work better than vertical launch.
Or ....somehow really come out with Commando Cody’ssleek rocket ...but get rid of those Steelcase rolling office chairs!!