/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16081776
>Starlinks aren't especially big or well-armored
But with Starship they'll have plenty of wiggle room to introduce countermeasures.
>China's own reuseables are coming online soon
>I don't think that gap is as big as people think.
All reusable rockets are not created equal. China is in the process of creating a worse Falcon 9 soon™
Elon throws around "order of magnitude" a lot but Starship really is unlike anything else.
Just for the sake of comparison, here's what Starship would look like if it only did 10x what Falcon 9 did. No, the others haven't been erased, they're just that small. China is about 2 pixels and Russia is about 1.