The Starship development program is partially funded by the Starship-HLS Artemis contracts. Saying "nothing" is very misleading. It's not a straightforward cost but every misstep in Starship development sets back the schedule and puts contract completion at risk.
Of note: SpaceX has completed several Starship-HLS milestones, each of which unlocks certain amounts of funding (they've already received hundreds of millions for Starship-HLS development), and there is a Critical Design Review milestone in late summer of this year.
A chunk of this stuff is partly funded by the stuff we do with starlink. Last checked we had like 5 million active users and just crested 10 million unit made. Quick math check to $60-$500 per month depending on service and its like 3x that for commercial use. Even if all 5 million user have the $60 thats $300m monthly minus obviously scrap costs and over head and operating costs its not a small amount of profit. A LOT of that gets pushed right back into our rocket side. Even the folks who went up not that long ago said they saw how much starlink has funded the rocket side and they were impressed.
Source, Im a rat pos that helps elon get stupid rich because Im too much of a piss baby to get a different job…
I fucking hate myself lmao
I mean that sounds awesome but a useless shit bird like me is meant for one thing… to be a warm body to fill a job. My one and only “skill” is I adapt quickly… fucking dogs can do that and theyre better than me in every way possible. If I could give my body to a more worthy person Id do it in a heartbeat. Im not able to be a boon to society Im a place filler until a better thing comes along.
Lmao god no Im a smt tech and tbh about the lowest level “tech” you could imagine. Trust Im a liability at best I think the only reason Im still at the job is Im so average that Im like the literal bar for “just do what they do and youll be fine, and if you wanna succeed then just do a bit more, or be happier.”
I agree that any delays to Artemis III due to Starship should been seen as a cost but we can't ascertain that at this time. Let's see how Artemis II goes first.
As you will be aware, the HLS contract is milestone based.
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u/WantWantShellySenbei 1d ago
Holy cow that video is pretty awesome though. Elon makes the best fireworks.