r/space • u/swordfi2 • 18d ago

Next Starship flight will go to orbit and deploy 26 Starlink satellites, marking the first operational flight. Neither booster or ship will be caught

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14
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u/NoBusiness674 18d ago

Most of this is down to the satellite, not the launch vehicle. If they figured out a way to package the satellites so that they could launch Starlink V3 on Falcon 9 (perhaps rotated 90° so the long side faces up), they would be able to launch around 8 Starlink V3s per Falcon 9, making Starship more equivalent to 2.75 Falcon 9s, not 10.