Good piece. #elonmusk is such a grifter.
“The lesson here is that SpaceX somehow needs to make Starship significantly more robust and lighter by well over a hundred tonnes if it is to conduct even one successful mission, let alone achieve constant reuse — which, let’s be clear, is basically impossible. All flight 9 has proven is just how much of a dead end Starship is.”
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-dead-end
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