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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

304 points · 367 comments · geox

reco98gg · 1790603090 · focus · HN ↗
I find curious the Starship business ROI discussed here mentions almost exclusively Starlink and the moon.
Putting weapons in orbit seems a very likely goal, given the attitude of the current US leadership.
They felt confident enough to recently acknowledge publicly their existence:
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cmn07yjqg5rwo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cmn07yjqg5rwo
1. Schiendelman · 1790603914 · focus · HN ↗
  Not just US - plenty of other countries will want to do the same, and there are only going to be a couple of countries with cheap payload capability.
2. indoordin0saur · 1790604123 · focus · HN ↗
  China launched some classified mission just last week which was quite possibly weapons for disabling other satellites.

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