Whatever you call it, the Shuttle Orbiter wasn’t a complete stage in any case. It needed the external tank, which was never recovered.

SpaceX has now demonstrated all the pieces of a fully reusable launcher. Next comes putting them all together in the same flight, and hopefully demonstrating that the flights can become frequent and cheap. There’s no guarantee of that, but it’s looking good.

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palata 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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wat10000 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If they manage to launch one of these every day it’ll be like adding a few more daily transpacific airline flights. The scale is not particularly significant.

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palata 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And adding tons of satellites in the sky.

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dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not all Starship launches will be used to add satellites.

	▲	palata an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Which does not mean they won't add satellites at a whole new scale?

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dabluecaboose 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can always tell the pearl-clutchers who have no idea what they're talking about when they complain about pollution from space travel.

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palata 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Ask astronomers what they think about Starlink then.

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wat10000 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Always the sign of a solid argument when the subject gets changed to a completely different one the moment there’s pushback.

	▲	palata 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How is it completely different? Satellites are polluting the sky...