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"SpaceX's Starship Achieves Milestone Launch, Paving the Way for Interstellar Travel"

SpaceX's successful Starship mission marks a significant step towards reducing launch costs by 10-fold, potentially opening up space to industries like asteroid mining and space factories. The mega-rocket, though not surviving the landing, demonstrated its potential for fully reusable space travel, with hopes of slashing launch costs to about $10 million per launch. The development of the Starship-Super Heavy launch system offers high hopes for its functionality and reusability, potentially revolutionizing the space industry and enabling broader and deeper sources of value from space.

via Business Insider|

#launch-costs #reusability #space-exploration

space-technology1 year ago•0 min saved

"China's Ambitious Space Plans: Giant Rail Guns and Hypersonic Jets"

Chinese scientists are reportedly developing a massive electromagnetic rail gun to launch a space plane the size of a Boeing 747 into orbit at twice the speed of sound, potentially revolutionizing space launch technology and reducing costs. The project, known as Tengyun, has been in development since 2016 and is believed to be nearing a breakthrough.

via Interesting Engineering|

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space-industry2 years ago•2 min saved

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.

via Axios|

#launch-costs #nasa #space-industry