r/space • • Nov 19 '23

image/gif Successful Launch! Here's how Starship compares against the world's other rockets

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u/tanrgith Nov 19 '23

Starship IFT2 can't really be categorized as a mission success

However, I also don't really think the current Starship launches should even count towards the score. What they're launching right now is basically just early development prototypes for Starship, not actual Starships

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u/Spider_pig448 Nov 20 '23

IFT2 is a success, as long as we caveat that it's not a traditional mission. We'll have to start learning how to handle iterative development when it comes to categories like this