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ULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

No but we have SLS, the modern equivalent

SLS is very expensive, but so was Saturn V. If all goes well we should have multiple providers that can provide SLS-like services more cheaply by on-orbit refueling, but until then we should keep SLS in production. It’s here, development is complete, and it works.