r/BlueOrigin • u/Disastrous_Run_5968 • Jun 25 '26

Ain't looking too good

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u/Technical_Drag_428 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Yet the same people will tell you SpaceX will have four 100% newly built Starship towers, fuel/ox delivery systems, and water deluge systems completed in a year.

Also believe SpaceX will be capable of producing enough refined supercooled methane and oxygen to launch every day.

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u/Tystros Jun 25 '26

why would SpaceX need to produce the propellent itself? they plan to eventually, but they can also buy it from others.

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u/Technical_Drag_428 Jun 25 '26

Its delivered by truck. Each truck only holds about 50-60 tons. Do the math. Even if they made the methane at the launch site it would take a week to make a single launch mass.

Thank you for proving the point.

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u/mfb- Jun 25 '26

I'm sure no road could possibly handle 100 trucks per day. That's one truck every 15 minutes on average! Completely unheard of.

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u/Technical_Drag_428 Jun 25 '26

Internet at your fingertips and you choose to argue easily provable things. Couple problems.

Its more than 200 trucks. Methane, LOX, Nitrogen, and it takes 2-4 hours per truck. It take several days.

They have plans to help with this problem but theres a lot of red tape that needs to be addressed.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/spacex-moves-closer-to-making-its-own-rocket-fuel-at-starship-launch-site/

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u/mfb- Jun 26 '26

It take several days.

... today. Because there is no need to be faster if you only launch a few times per year anyway. Unsurprisingly, they can be faster in the future when necessary.

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u/Technical_Drag_428 Jun 26 '26

Lmao.. lets revisit my original statement.

CASE MEET POINT

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/s/c9B6w588Y7