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Comment by maxdo | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]maxdo · 2026-11-15 Sun 04:18 UTC · link
Curious what will be next 10x design? Nuclear propulsion? Same rocket made by robots ?
[−]jimbokun · 2026-11-15 Sun 04:28 UTC · link
Space elevator?
[−]Laremere · 2026-11-15 Sun 09:34 UTC · link
My bet: Moon based vehicle and propellant manufacturing. It's just so much easier to get stuff off of the moon that if you were going to build anything of any real size in space, the moon is where I'd get the bulk raw material given the choice.
[−]cubefox · 2026-11-15 Sun 11:00 UTC · link
[−]O5vYtytb · 2026-11-15 Sun 14:38 UTC · link
I think Starship is like entering the wide-body jet age of aircraft. A lot of fine-tuning and efficiency gains from now until it's ubiquitous and cheap. But getting from that to another 10x gain is much harder, similar to aircraft where we haven't seen a "10x" jump since wide-body jets.