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by JumpCrisscross
263 days ago
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> Every story I've ever heard about "Starship" is how it is going to Mars to take humans there to build a colony Could this reflect your media diet? > never once heard that "Starship" will be used to launch even more starlink satellites That's kind of wild. I understand getting the PR stuff first, but every newspaper I read mentions Starlink whenever SpaceX comes up, unless it's about a launch explosion or Artemis. > pretty wasteful to blow up starship after starship after starship when they could have spent that money launching normal rockets for their satellite deployments V3 doesn't fit on smaller rockets. And Starship's launch costs promise to be much lower than the Falcons. > why name it "starship" if it's just meant for LEO? Because it wasn't intended for LEO, that's why Starship isn't an interstellar platform... |
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It could reflect SpaceX's bad PR. I read plenty of news sources, and the most that makes it out there is how the latest Starship blew up, yet again. Not great PR. And beyond that, the scope of the thing is to go to Mars. It's up to SpaceX to get the PR out there, not for me to seek out niche news sources. But thanks for trying to make this about me failing instead of SpaceX failing at PR.
>That's kind of wild. I understand getting the PR stuff first, but every newspaper I read mentions Starlink whenever SpaceX comes up, unless it's about a launch explosion or Artemis.
Not wild at all. And let's be real, I seriously doubt you read "newspapers".
I did a Google search for "SpaceX Starship" and nowhere in 8 pages of results did I see anything mentioning Starlink. In fact, one of the results was for the SpaceX Careers page, which says:
>"Work on the Starship program developing the vehicles that will enable large groups of people to travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Life at SpaceX. At ..."
So even SpaceX is selling it as going to Mars, and not about launching Starlink satelites.
But this entire conversion is completely pointless, so I won't be responding to this thread anymore with anything but a canned lame response. You've been warned.