/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12527022
Well yeah, it's designed to be a Mars rocket first and to be a reasonable launch vehicle at a very distant second. It's ridiculously robust for the sort of market we have today - just look at how comically oversized Starship looks on their moon mission proposal art.

I personally think that's why Starlink exists - to give Starship something profitable to do with its' bigass cargo capacity until its' reliability becomes accepted as "tried and tested" and the market adjusts to the idea of having that much more lift available to use. No idea if that's something which will pay off, but that's what I think the plan is.