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Comment by asadotzler | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]asadotzler · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:01 UTC · link
Starship has multiple masters:

1) Starlink 2) NASA Artemis 3) Mars

Each of these variants will have significantly different designs demanded by different organizations or organizational units.

[−]bumby · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:32 UTC · link
The Starship requirements across those missions are generally much more aligned than what NASA vs DoD wanted out of STS. Most of Starlink reqs could be considered a subset of Artemis. I would venture the biggest distort is reliability requirements between crewed/uncrewed missions.

The issue isn’t really how many masters per se, but how competing their respective requirements.