Why Starship First Orbital Flight is Very IMPORTANT For SpaceX & Elon…
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As a space fan, what really makes you look forward to Starship’s first orbital flight? I believe many of you have counted the days to the milestone Musk set for the flight. Surely it wasn’t simply a sight that shot up into the sky, right?
Indeed, Starship’s first orbital Flight is very important not only to SpaceX but to you, me, and all the world.
Discuss everything about this in today’s episode of Alpha Tech:
First and most important for the US taxpayer, the first Starship orbital flight will directly condemn what NASA has spent on SLS being a real joke.
For more than a decade, NASA has been building a new mega-rocket, the Space Launch System or SLS, a $4.1 billion-plus, bright-orange rocket ship that can carry 70 tons of cargo to orbit. It’s also the rocket NASA hopes will return American astronauts to the moon, and then take them to Mars. Everyone who is anyone in space — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings — has a piece of this project.
But all we know, it’s too costly and late.
On another side, Musk claimed a Starship launch could cost just $2 million a turn.
No one is sure how quickly or how well Starship will work. But whereas the SLS rocket looked backward for its technology, SpaceX is seeking to leap forward with an even larger, fully reusable vehicle with more lift capacity. A lot of Starship’s technology is experimental and cutting-edge, so there will be some hiccups along the way. But the pain will be worth the ultimate reward—an efficient rocket and spacecraft that can fly often for hundreds or even tens of millions of dollars.
When SpaceX finally tests, flies, and produces a reliable version of Starship in the next few weeks, it will disrupt the global launch industry.
Previously, the limiting factor for what one might do in space has cost. At a price of $4.1 billion per mission, the SLS and Orion embody this concept. When Starship delivers, it will change the fundamental question behind our exploration program from “what can we afford to do in space?” to “what should we do in space?”
Why Starship First Orbital Flight is Very IMPORTANT For SpaceX & Elon…
