With launch costs 100x lower than historical norms, there is plenty of space cargo that becomes economically viable. I don’t think SpaceX will have any trouble filling those launches. I am surprised there isn’t already a venture fund dedicated to funding space startups so that they can exploit Starship economics.
How much of that space cargo is payload ready for a vehicle that hasn't been finalized in design yet? How long does it take to fit that cargo into that ship once it is finalized? Able to meet the 3x/week launch schedule?
It's obviously just a stat to make it sound impressive, but it is just totally impractical. I could easily say that with a launch every day, that capacity could be met in just 6 months! Fuck, with a measly 2 launches a day, we could do it this quarter!! Stats are sometimes meaningless, and when they are coming from this particular individual, they have to be taken with rather large grains of salt.
They're averaging 1x a week with Falcon 9 which requires throwing away an upper stage and Merlin engine each time. So yeah you "could easily say" whatever you want, but this hot take that SpaceX is just talking bullshit like any rando internet commentator is getting a bit old.
Averaging 1x a week is not the same thing as 1 a week.
The bullshit quotes coming from Musk are what's getting old. People calling him out on that bullshit is not the stale part. His rhetoric is getting quite boring.
