/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>27891511
China won't catch up to SpaceX at Falcon 9 booster return levels for at least 3-5 years, for Starship they won't catch up for 8-10 years, the landing maneuever Starship requires is 10x more difficult than the that of the F9 booster

But yeah basically even if NASA doesn't select the Lunar Starship, the DOD has plenty of interest in Starship for P2P cargo delivery and Starlink which Starship will help deploy faster

>my annualized rate of return is 1000%
how do I sustain the obviously unsustainable, or is it better to not try?

>>27654470
Starship beats SS2 in every metric, once they get it working. Virgin's only advantage is a year or two quicker to market. Once Starship is actually landing without exploding regularly, SpaceX is able to build them MUCH quicker than SPCE can build Spaceships.

>>27527196
The landing pad is further away from the launch site than the camera angle makes it look

SPCE bought itself a little more time today.