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thinkcontextyesterday at 9:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

I have criticized Musk plenty and have been skeptical of the Starship timelines from the beginning, however, SpaceX has launched over 150 times this year. That's more than the entire rest of the world. Surely they must be doing something right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_spaceflight


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diamond559yesterday at 11:11 PM

Those are routine satellite launches that we've been able to do for decades, all for their not as good as fiber internet.

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cmatoday at 12:00 AM

> skeptical of the Starship timelines from the beginning

I would hope so, the Shotwell 2018 TED Talk put point to point flights for Starship for around the price of business class in commercial service by 2028, Musk said still on track a few years later after the move away from aspirated cooling, a bit later I think they made the move to aspirational timelines.

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