/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12210005
This. Starship is amazing even if the second stage (the ship) is expendable. If Falcon 9 is 3.66 meters across and had a 5.2 meter fairing, then 9 meter Starship can have a 12.8 meter fairing. This gives about 12.2 meters of internal diameter... which means that we could conceivably launch a 10 meter monolithic mirror for a space telescope, or a 17 meter mirror for a segmented one.

Also Raptors are $2 Million apiece. Because stainless steel is $3/kilogram, it is likely that expendable Starship costs like $10 million dollars or less if you’re flying with 3 raptors.