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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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computerex ◴[17 Jan 25 14:56 UTC] No.42738131[source]▶
Guy is a serial liar and you are making excuses on his behalf.
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1. The5thElephant ◴[17 Jan 25 22:18 UTC] No.42743866[source]▶
He is a serial liar, but we can also actually see the engineering progress which is remarkable regardless of his overinflated timelines.

His lying doesn't change the incredible work by those engineers and other employees of SpaceX.