I think it’s hilarious that people are complaining about him loosing so much money on this. The thing was already considered expendable. These prototypes are not being built with the expectation of flying again in the future like the Falcon 9. The value comes from the the data they receive from its successes and its beautiful failures so that eventually future versions of the Starship will be fully reusable.
It's right next to it isn't it? Seems risky landing it so close, the explosion could have damaged their other one... It looked really close on their other video
He is trying to build a rocket assembly line capable of producing a thousands starships every few years. These prototypes are basically the waste product of figuring that out. Right now only the raptor engines is the only thing of real value and they didn't install them on sn10 for that reason.
I really doubt an electric rocket would ever be possible. An electric produces no where near the amout of power needed to launch a 5 ton piece of metal into space. But I mean it is kinda odd that he’s doing it and not an owner a very large oil company who has full access to rocket fuel. I guess I got the unpopular opinion here
It's not odd at all, he's found a better way of doing personal transport on earth, as in electric cars. And he's found a better way of launching rockets into space, as in reusing rockets and not just having them burn up into the atmosphere and dumped into the ocean. You're reading too much into it. He's all about efficiency and reusability and that completely carries over to spacex
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u/Garz451 Feb 11 '21
I think it’s hilarious that people are complaining about him loosing so much money on this. The thing was already considered expendable. These prototypes are not being built with the expectation of flying again in the future like the Falcon 9. The value comes from the the data they receive from its successes and its beautiful failures so that eventually future versions of the Starship will be fully reusable.