I mean yeah, colonizing Mars is something that at this point is utterly impossible. But we don’t even have to engage with the Mars part of this because SpaceX can’t even reliably leave the atmosphere
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The first part is true and the latter part is false. SpaceX is the most reliable space launch operator. For example when SLS was delayed, SpaceX came to help and launched Europa Clipper to planet Jupiter. Starship v2 has a reliability issue, but it is just a test article.
jun 20, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Less a test article than it is an ACME product at this point. Hand it off to Wile E. Coyote
jun 20, 2025, 1:40 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s just a joke at this point. The bigger joke? The dumbass liars who show up to white knight for a Nazi billionaire. They can’t get HLS to work. All it has to do is lift shit for the lunar surface to orbit… Oh wait… they have to launch 30 rockets to do that… Such bullshit.
jul 15, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Starship is too big. That's the problem.
jun 21, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
It has to be big if they plan to reuse it. Eg for the Space Shuttle, they discarded the fuel tank. Time will tell if steel proves to be too heavy material.
jun 21, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Time has told. Starship is DOA
jun 21, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Starship v1 already has proven that the basic concept works, by landing from orbital speed.
jun 21, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
that’s more like a proof of concept than anything remotely viable for NASA missions, and it’s long in the past. None have ever managed to take up even a fraction of their needed payload, and the fail rate keeps getting worse and worse.
jun 21, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Where do you get that payload info from? So far I have not seen a test for payload capability.
jun 21, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
The January launch had an 8 ton payload representing the weight of 10 Starlink satellites. SpaceX says they expect payloads to run 100-150 tons, maybe even 150-200 to be viable. Given that, it’s pretty dumb that v2 is both bigger and heavier than v1
jun 21, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Best info about v1 capability is Elon stating that v1 could lift 45 tons. That seems reasonable, even though it is from an unreliable mouth. v3(or v4) will have 50% more engines and more fuel. It was/is planned to be the first one that try to carry other than test equipments.
jun 21, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Elon is a liar, so let’s stop right there. Any statement directly out of his mouth regarding the capabilities of any of his products are at best puffery, and often cross into blatant fraud. Did v1 ever successfully lift off with a 45 ton payload? Or did “Elon say” it could?
jun 21, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
V1 (and v2) have only tested with weight it is estimated to be able to bring down and land. So it is futile to align the test equipment as cargo/cargo capability. SpaceX can do the math, I cannot, neither can Elon. But I trust the best rocket manufacturer for rocket math (not Elon).
jun 21, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
This is nonsense and a separate issue. Reusability is pointless, because you give uo your cargo space for return fuel. The current Starship cargo capacity is pathetic. Steel is a ridiculous choice as well.
jun 21, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Reusability is mandatory in the long run. But they should do expendable first, now that v2 is known to be a failure. Why do you state that the cargo capacity is pathetic?
jun 21, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Because it is. Reusability is not "mandatory", lol. Building shit in space, so we aren't stuck in this gravity well is what's mandatory.
jun 21, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
You are a joke. Large rockets are mandatory to build anything in space. And provenly reusability is the way to go.
jun 21, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
they’re getting worse at it Kimmo
jun 21, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
They have not even tried since IFT8, when it became clear that v2 is a failure.
jun 21, 2025, 3:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Right so we agree on v2
jun 21, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop talking about things you know nothing about.
jun 21, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view