Starbase Brewing
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Putting beer on Mars 🍻 ➡️ 🚀 Brewed the first beer in space 🍺🌌 Now available in stores around Texas and at the Cape! 🛒 Find beer: https://t.co/dvo2YvEGJ6
Amazon claims it would take “centuries” to deploy this 1M constellation. For context, we’ve spent months diving into physics backed estimates for what these sats will probably look like. All that work culminated in this article: research.33fg.com/analysis/the-s… Elon has indicated publicly that this and previous analysis we’ve done on this topic is at least directionally accurate. I’m sure it will not be exact, but better than most other publicly available resources. Our numbers suggest that early versions (3-5 years) of these satellites would produce 50kw-100kw/ton with room to improve into the 150-200kw/ton range Assuming starship V3 gets 100T to LEO (and never improves), the 100GWs is the goal not just a hard 1M satellites, the power density never improves (it will), Then the launches required for this goal is between 10,000-20,000 based on our power density estimates (conservative) The only way Amazon is even close to correct with its “centuries” claim is if launch regulations never allow more than 100 launches of starship per year, and all the metrics above don’t improve. Starship is already approved for ~120 launches out of Florida. This does not count Starbase or any other locations for future Starship launches. More launch sites, better mass to orbit, and better power density dramatically reduce these launch numbers. An improvement in all 3 (highly likely) over the next decade drives this timeline down to <10 years. The centuries claim is misleading and likely purposefully using old historical numbers to help with their petition. Interestingly it’s one of the only claims without a citation.
President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize architecture where possible, add missions and accelerate flight rate, execute in an evolutionary way, and safely return American astronauts to the Moon, this time to stay. This is the NASA that once changed the world. This is the NASA that will do it again.
@tetsuoai To be clear, we are still going to do Mars. I don’t think this change affects the time to a Mars city being self-growing by more than 5 years and it might turn out to accelerate Mars.
SpaceX and xAI is possibly the greatest merger in human history.
SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → #xai-joins-spacex" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spacex.com/updates#xai-jo…
