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>>24394012
Because you only use Chinese steel once before realizing how horrifically bad it is.

>>24368506
>two Starhoppers flight proven
>two Starship prototypes finished and ready to fly
>first booster well underway
Where do I apply to be Elon's cocksleeve

>>24366661
>once they're all landing rockets like SpaceX
Okay, so important sidebar about rocket design here. Every rocket ever built (mostly) uses multiple stages. Every rocket built until Shuttle (which was as expensive to refurbish as it was to build, kind of making the point moot) and Falcon (the first truly reusable booster) just discarded spent stages in the ocean. Russia drops spent stages on Siberia and China drops them on villages. But the important part is that every rocket needs at least two stages. SSTO rockets suck and are a meme. The generation of "reusable" rockets being developed by Arianespace, Roscosmos, RocketLab and so on all reuse JUST the first stage, like Falcon 9. That means you're throwing half the rocket away with every launch still. Starship will be the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. That's such a significant step change its hard to describe, but the fact that Roscosmos' Falcon clone is supposed to put 1/10th the cargo in orbit for 20x the price of Starship is a good figure to use.

Reusing the second stage is VERY HARD and requires a MASSIVE rocket, because the heat from atmospheric reentry rises with the CUBE of speed, and orbital velocity is 7.4 kilometers per second.

>>24365889
>tesla
>makes rockets
REPEAT AFTER ME

TESLA IS NOT SPACEX

SPACEX IS NOT TESLA

TESLA SUPPLIES BATTERIES AND ELECTRIC MOTORS TO SPACEX

SPACEX GIVES TESLA FREE ADVERTISING

THAT IS THE EXTENT OF THEIR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

TESLA DOES NOT MAKE ROCKETS

SPACEX DOES NOT MAKE CARS

t. Rocket autist