Charity bet #5: First Starship Booster Intact Landing

[Cosmacelf]

I expect the Raptor engine output will have the biggest impact on how many launches will happen. Elon made a huge fuss about this a while back. If I remember correctly, he wants the manufacturing to hit one engine a day.

At that rate, they’d be able to launch at most once every two months or so assuming none are recovered.

 

[scaesare]

At that rate, they’d be able to launch at most once every two months or so assuming none are recovered.

Isn't the total # of engines 33+6=39?

Does SpaceX have 7-day work weeks.. I thought they did. If so, seems like thy could go every 6 weeks assuming engine production is the bottleneck.

 

[Cosmacelf]

This bet is still alive, but I suspect it won’t happen until 2024 based on Elons latest comments. Sounds like they are expecting to lose a few boosters into the ocean before they’ll attempt an actual catch.