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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ruivil7 ◴[17 Jan 25 09:27 UTC] No.42735662[source]▶
Back a few years ago. This was the starship that in 2024 would reach Mars with humans, with so much space taken by crew and materials, and almost no fuel, and "10 times cheaper". And currently is an empty shell. Nice fireworks and show, but no meaningful payload yet. Not even LO. And this will be ready for 2026 artemis mission?
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GiorgioG ◴[17 Jan 25 14:11 UTC] No.42737660[source]▶
I’m not a big fan of Elon Musk, but this is just the typical executive talking up their product and to some extent being overly optimistic about timelines. You’d think with the quantity of software engineers in HN this would be obvious, but the (rightful IMO) disdain for Elon Musk is resetting people’s brains.
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hooli_gan ◴[17 Jan 25 16:41 UTC] No.42739967[source]▶
The taxpayer is paying for these lies
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schiffern ◴[17 Jan 25 17:20 UTC] No.42740676[source]▶
If you think delays in aerospace constitute "lies," you're not going to have a good time following any aerospace company. Unexpected delays are par for the course.
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1. hooli_gan ◴[17 Jan 25 17:24 UTC] No.42740724[source]▶
If you think these are mere delays, then I have a bridge to sell to you
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2. jiggawatts ◴[17 Jan 25 22:41 UTC] No.42744036[source]▶
In about two years, when these things will be launching hundreds of starlink satellites like clockwork, you’ll just move the goalposts and find something else to criticise.

I’m saying this with confidence because it’s the established history of SpaceX critics. Everything from reusable rockets, space internet, full-flow staged combustion, etc.. has had its naysayers that all shut up and found something new to critique once SpaceX showed it was possible and even profitable.

At this stage you may as well just come out and say “I don’t like Elon”.