Good piece. #elonmusk is such a grifter.

“The lesson here is that SpaceX somehow needs to make Starship significantly more robust and lighter by well over a hundred tonnes if it is to conduct even one successful mission, let alone achieve constant reuse — which, let’s be clear, is basically impossible. All flight 9 has proven is just how much of a dead end Starship is.”

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-dead-end

Starship: Dead End?

What happened on Test Flight 9?

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@JoshuaHolland the booster, on the other hand, seems like it might be useful if you put something better on top.