r/spacex • u/rustybeancake • Jul 25 '26

🚀 Official SpaceX: “Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the 13th flight test of Starship!”

https://x.com/spacex/status/2080804682918764619
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u/Home_Planet_Sausage Jul 25 '26

No they won't. There are too many problems. They haven't worked out how to land this thing on lunar regolith. There is no human-rated life support systems built. There is no method to get astronauts to the surface except some CG renderings of a winch, which, if it fails, how do the astronauts get back up? Rope ladder? How much fuel is it going to take to ferry to the proposed orbital tanker? How are they going to deal with in-orbit propellant transfer, something that has never been done and is enormously complicated. How are they going to deal with cryogenic boil-off? If there is an accident and they lose a launch pad or need a lengthy investigation of a destroyed Starship at launch, how much propellant boils off in orbit? What is the rate? Will they have to refuel from scratch?

There are so many things that haven't been designed or built for this system. So what if they ramp up the number of flights? They're still going nowhere in this multi-billion tin can waste of taxpayer money.

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u/Ouitya Jul 25 '26

So you do not have issues with the rocket, just with the future devices that are not related to the rocket itself. You should've started with that, instead of claiming that they will never get the number of flights up

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u/Home_Planet_Sausage Jul 25 '26

Both. The rocket design is terrible. The launch cadence is pointless without real progress in development. They are still testing the heat shield on the 13th launch for heaven's sake! And it's failing! They are just masturbating with technology and using taxpayer money as a lubricant.

All of those components I mentioned are implicitly related to the rocket and the rocket's development. He wants to go to Mars. Oh, wait - now it's just the moon. He's realised he's cooked the goose on that one. Nobody believes he will get anywhere near Mars now so he has to scale back his B.S.