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alapsa
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Comment #30095920
E3 is the best! Well deserved - congrats!!
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Comment #26308444
Love this! Exactly!
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Comment #26307625
Mars is awesome and I can't wait to go, but Earth is a great place to live :)
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Comment #26307603
So exciting!
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Comment #26307589
Definitely agree the first and second stages should be purpose-built!
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Comment #26303648
You're exactly right, which is why we're developing our own engines. Where Starship will be the freight train, we will be the Sprinter van.
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Comment #26303633
Thanks for correctly noting the tense - I have revised to future tense and apologize for any misgivings. Starship is amazing and we are huge fans! That is an enormous vehicle thoug…
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Comment #26303519
Sorry for the confusion! There are plenty of space vehicles that have had "down-mass" capacity - Gemini, Soyuz, Apollo, Dragon, Shuttle, X-37B, etc. They are all spacecraft, althou…
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Launch HN: Stoke (YC W21) – Low cost, on-demand delivery to and from space
Hi HN, Andy and Tom here from STOKE ( http://www.stoke-space.com ). We aim to deliver satellites directly to their final orbit at 20x lower cost. We’ll do this using 100% reusable …