Starship, Elon Musk's lethal weapon on the launch market

Will Starship, SpaceX's giant rocket, which completed its third test flight this Thursday, cause a new earthquake in the space launch market?

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With Starship, SpaceX

is on the verge of achieving a second “quantum leap”

: after having shaken up the price dimension with the

reusable Falcon 9, it is preparing to cause a rupture of the same magnitude, this time, on the volume dimension

 ,” underlines Hugues Lavandier, senior associate director at McKinsey.

What is indeed new is the enormous payload capacity of 150 tonnes in low orbit, which allows a variety of missions that the Falcon 9 cannot carry out.

Thanks to its giant fairing, the new rocket will have a payload capacity five times greater than that of the European Ariane 6 rocket and the American New Glenn rocket from Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos' space company) and Vulcan Centaur, designed by ULA ( Boeing and Lockheed).

Thanks to this unprecedented capacity,

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the marginal cost of the launch per kilo could…

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