SpaceX is preparing for Starship's 13th test flight. Starship is still experiencing issues during ascent and has yet to successfully launch anything from orbit. This test flight will only be sub-orbital.
Is Starship's design flawed? Is it too heavy to achieve its goals? Rocket development is notoriously time-consuming, but SpaceX promised it had cracked that code.
NASA selected SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System (HLS) to transport astronauts from lunar orbit down to the Moon and back. Starship had a tremendous set of goals to achieve before taking on the Moon. Including mastering space-based & lunar refuelling & becoming a crew-capable craft that can land on the Moon, refuel there, and take off again with people on board.
Does any of this have any chance of happening soon if Starship is more fundamentally flawed and cannot reliably reach orbit with cargo?
SpaceX's 1st Starship test flight since going public is set to launch
Yeah, fuck making money sending shit into space for a profit.
All the best businesses pursue billions in debt to work out problems their competitors don't have.
Dont worry though, after the initial capital burn of a few trillion, and the half a billion that Elon steals from the company each year they'll make that money back after just a few decades. Maybe.
I guess one thing we can be sure of is that Elon will make a ton of money before space x goes under, or gets bought out.
NASA is gonna have to rescue it. Unless maga goons are still in charge in which case they’ll just keep subsidizing it.