[Eric Berger] SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
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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.
Musk doesn't care about people, so dont worry about that
I think most launches are expected to be polar, heading southwards
Do you think Starship will ever be reliable enough to fly over populated areas? Maybe not over big cities but like airplanes maybe?
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
Ah, yeah, that's much better.