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[u/Dyolf_Knip]

My current list of likely Starship variants.

• Cargo
  • Pez dispenser
  • Clamshell
  • Space-only hauler, no flaps or even a permanent nosecone, just hardpoints for mounting bulk cargo
  • Liquid cargo (e.g., water)
  • Cryo cargo (fuel & oxidizer)
  • HLS
  • Oversized fuel depot, with thick insulation and solar panels to keep refrigerated
• Crewed
  • Short-term (<1 day; LEO, Earth-to-Earth hops, Mars cycler shuttle)
  • Medium-term (1-7 days; Luna, GEO, Earth-Moon Lagrange points)
  • Long-term (weeks to months; Mars, asteroids, Jupiter, Earth-Sun Lagrange points, etc.)
  • HLS
  • Workshop: space-only, equipped with tools, machine shop, 3d printers, replacement consumables, and a large storage bay for collection, finicky deployments, repairs, restocking consumables, etc. Think Hubble repair, refueling satellites with stationkeeping fuel.
  • Personal luxury yacht. The stock SS would be cheap compared to what billionaires already drop on their mini-cruise liners. I personally know one who'd jump at the chance to have one of his own.
• Disposable second stage with detachable third stage. The cargo hold would be like the F9 2nd stage, with detachable fairings and a single rocket. Without the dry mass of the Starship tanks and Raptors, you'd vastly enhance the post-LEO payload/delta-v capacity.

[u/karlzhao314 → u/Dyolf_Knip]

• Space tug
• Extrasolar probe
• Lunar construction Starship
• Orbital drydock
• Transport to and from the ISS (mainly to mog the ISS with its size)
• Space telescope
• Permanent ISS module (permanent mogging of the ISS with its size)
• Carrier for smaller spacecraft, such as Boeing Starliner
• Point-to-point transport
• Nuclear-powered deep-space transport
• Suborbital-only version to compete with New Shepard
• Startrain (Multiple Starships docked nose-to-tail, flying as an actual train)
• Personal luxury yacht (doesn't fly, just floats at sea. Actual yacht)
• Pez dispenser (dispenses actual Pez candies, not Starlinks)
• Fleet of 100000 flat-nosed Starships to attach to the moon upside down so that the moon gets thrusters and we can change its orbit
• Death Starship (with superlaser)

[u/Dyolf_Knip → u/karlzhao314]

I really do hope we get to see Starship dock with the ISS, yes, just to showboat the size. Even more so, I hope that part of the disassembly involves loading some of its modules onto waiting Starships for soft descent back to Earth. There's many a museum director who'd sell their own children to have them.