brucethemoose comments on [Eric Berger] SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (10 children)

TBH this is very cool.

It does put a lot of dense civilization downrange of the launch site, though. Thats... risky. Spaceports are often on eastern coasts for this reason.

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[–] Jarvis2323@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I think most launches are expected to be polar, heading southwards

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[–] llamacoffee@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you think Starship will ever be reliable enough to fly over populated areas? Maybe not over big cities but like airplanes maybe?

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago*

I don't think any spacecraft is, not even the Soyuz rockets that were basically bulletproof for decades.

No matter how advanced it is, a rocket is basically a giant soda can filled with explosives. The mass fraction is just so different than an airplane, so it has to be treated accordingly.

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[–] Jarvis2323@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago*

The noise is likely what keeps them away from populated areas. Similar to the concord.

Reliably - I think they’ll fly often enough to get falcon 9 like reliability

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago