[khriss]

And how exactly is SpaceX going to make any meaningful ROI on getting Mars orbit capability? It's not like people and govt's are raring to get there.

Scientific organizations like NASA would jump on a Mars Starship in a heartbeat, but how many missions will they want?

SpaceX is a corporation first and foremost, not a research org.

[Leonard_of_Q]

They're getting ROI on other ventures and uses those returns to finance their expansion towards Mars (and other planetary) orbit capacity. It may be rare to see a company looking further than the next quarterly report but it is nothing new for either SpaceX or some of Musk's other ventures.