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To: Jonty30

This was Musks plan - but for space. If he can get Starship to run at the Falcon 9 pace, he can put 400 tons a week in orbit.

For most purposes we can imagine at the moment, he has solved the Earths gravity well problem. Wanna colonize asteroids, a la “The Expanse?” Build Gerard O’Neill cylinders? Massive Solar power stations?


14 posted on 03/04/2025 1:33:49 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

Starship v3 will loft 200 US tons into LEO. With turn around time at less than 2 hours per launch tower - you do the math.


33 posted on 03/04/2025 2:26:33 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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