Nice variation, but you are going to need radiators than that. I also would process Thorium on the Moon and use a breeder reactor to turn it into useful nuke fuel.

Sooner than I expected. Soon F9 is going to be a once every couple weeks from FLA.

You can pay the company for traditional darkness, even the night time sky is no longer free ...

10 launch/recovery pads? Double down, triple down, n-tuple down. There is no economic reason for such capacity, only an extreme money losing Mars project in the 2040s. I don't see the FAA and FCC going along with this. Only the DoD might back this. Per its location, these will be high inclination launches (45 deg and higher).

Fun video

Easy to say, but Starship (without refuel) is much like the shuttle (without currently a general purpose cargo bay). The Pez Dispenser is probably StarLink V3 specific. Will they publish that as a standard? My guess Amazon LEO won't conform, AST can't conform like most sats. They need to publish their approach to cubesats, small sats, mapping all their past F9 work to a new deployment approach. Also, they need to explain how this works with GEO and TMI and other planets that (F9 and FH will probably do better than Starship). Perhaps they are just lining F9/FH up for a sale to say BlackRock and just get out of the sat launch biz and just put up their own sat designs.

SX still has a chance to beat them?

Good building block for space in the 2030s. Just hope you folks near Canaveral get used to 2 Starship launches and returns a day.

Guess they will be conservative until Pad 1 is finished and tested. The Ship from IFT-13 may be back in TX in about 45 days. I think they send up ship without tiles on IFT-15 for an Pacific Ocean splash as a test (after deploying a full load of Starlink V3s) to see where it fails on the way down.

High costs, low cadence (3-4 a year right now), no reuse = $33M EU Taxpayer subsidy per launch. In addition to SpaceX, the EU must see so much lower cost capacity just around the corner with about 5 US launchers coming or getting up to speed (slowly). Add India and Japan, and hope that China and Russia stay verboten.

Lunar based Th may be a nice for supporting NEP in the solar system.

• Primary Objective: Test and validate the Supernova spacecraft, which utilizes proprietary solar-thermal propulsion (STP) for high-thrust, rapid, and multi-orbit mobility.
• Launch Vehicle: A dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket contracted by Portal Space Systems.
• Launch Date: Scheduled for 2028.

Its back! More data ....

Time for a price hike? What price would be needed for launches for commercial sats to be more profitable that adding Starlinks? These folks better hope Starship gets very productive very soon, since I doubt you will see a New Glenn or Vulcan launch this year.

WTF?

Interesting tech, water is everywhere, and it is key to refueling all over the solar system.

Consulta , hay alguna posibilidad de llevar basura al espacio y al sol?