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blendergeek on Feb 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it...

Starship is the most powerful rocket in history and should be the first ever orbital launch system that is fully reusable. I don't know what you consider to be "genuinely" exciting, but I would consider entirely new generations of rocket launch tech to be genuinely exciting.

gibolt on Feb 27, 2024 [–]

Starship is expected to be 3x as powerful as the Saturn 5, once 'complete'.

The size+weight+frequency of payloads this enables will drastically alter the industry and how we interact with space.

Edit: Image for scale of other rockets: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-size-of-the-w...

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