The Potential and Risks of SpaceX's Starship Launch

If SpaceX's Starship program succeeds, it could revolutionize the space industry by dramatically lowering the cost of launching people and payloads to orbit and beyond. The company's founder, Elon Musk, has said a Starship launch could eventually cost just $10 million or less. Starship could potentially enable new businesses and markets, make human spaceflight accessible to a wider range of people, and allow constellations of satellites to be built far more quickly. Starship could also allow for new designs and capabilities for space telescopes. SpaceX already has at least one customer for Starship: NASA.