Das US-Raumfahrtunternehmen wartet verzweifelt auf Starship – wird es endlich liefern? | „Das ist so eine wilde Fahrt. Die Höhen sind hoch. Die Tiefen sind niedrig.“
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/the-us-space-enterprise-is-desperately-waiting-for-starship-will-it-finally-deliver/
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Betteridge’s Law of Headlines says “no”
Many people are rightfully skeptical about starship but its quite insane that a fully reuasble which is also the largest and most powerful rocket in history is actively being developed.
Spacex is currently in the process of building more launchpads, factories and additional infrastructure for starship than they ever did for falcon 9
What lows? SpaceX’s Super Heavy / Starship program has been progressing extremely quickly with minimal delays. If not for Elon’s childish behavior at DOGE, SpaceX would be the darling of both the left and the right.
The launch set for this week is going to have new engines, a new SuperHeavy booster and a New Starship payload on a new Launchpad. Each of these new items has never been used before. SpaceX is advancing very quickly. This will be an exciting launch!
As it stands today Starship will never work as intended. The whole thing is a boondoggle of epic proportions and NASA shouldn’t be relying on Elon to make due. Starship is the FSD of the space industry. It doesn’t work, it’s not going to work.
Doesn’t it feel like the ENTIRE Starship effort is being silently viewed as a „V1“ concept of to-be Starship-class spaceships to be sent straight to Smithsonian to be then rebuilt by BO or NASA after Musk had finally understood the unspoken connotation of rapidly flashing exit sign?
We could be decades farther ahead if we did not allow our space program to be hallowed out by private companies.
These are the voyages of the US Space Enterprise…
Top comments predictably insane
You guys are going to be so disappointed when it works it seems.
Just once I’d like to have a space program without Nazis.
It’s another Elon Must scam. Reusable shuttle didnt save any money. He just fucking with ya’ll.
Is Starship cool? Yes, if it works. But has it been having lots of technical problems and is behind schedule? Also yes. It still has to figure out how to get to orbit and get human rated. Will it get there eventually? Spacex has proven that they can solve things, but usually one problem at a time and usually at least 5 years after Elon has promised. But will space exploration be better off once there’s a working assembly line of reusable planetary vehicles? Absolutely.
It seems like there are two sides here. Those who are hopeful for this and those who want it to fail because eLOn.
Half of what comes out of Elon musk’s mouth is „entrepreneurial bullshit.“
He’s a grifter.
A giant, ugly stainless steel heatsink like the Cybertruck. What could go wrong?
Use the volunteered donations ballroom money.
Reddit would rather never go to orbit again than have spacex be successful because of the complete irrational hatred of musk
It’s honestly mindblowing
**Everyone on the sub being super negative about Starship.**
*Starship eventually succeeds in wildly ambitious goals and totally changes the spaceflight industry to a greater degree than falcon-9 did.*
**everyone moves goalpost to being negative about next SpaceX venture.**
Why can’t NASA make their own rocket? Oh right, the waste and incompetence.
Why don’t we just build modernized shuttles again
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjl2kz „Last usage“)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[FCC](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjem45 „Last usage“)|Federal Communications Commission|
| |(Iron/steel) [Face-Centered Cubic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_iron) crystalline structure|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjsclf „Last usage“)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|L2|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 2 ([Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s) video explanation)|
| |Paywalled section of the NasaSpaceFlight forum|
|[L3](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omiud9t „Last usage“)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 3 of a two-body system, opposite L2|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjsclf „Last usage“)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[LES](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjdho8 „Last usage“)|Launch Escape System|
|[MSFC](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjc005 „Last usage“)|Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama|
|[NERVA](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omj5k4b „Last usage“)|Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (proposed engine design)|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjiwfx „Last usage“)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[ULA](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjs0db „Last usage“)|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|Jargon|Definition|
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|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1tgsfae/stub/omjem45 „Last usage“)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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Starship will never work and Eric Berger is a completely corrupted writer. Just accepts whatever Musk says without any thought whatsoever.