Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace · Sep 16, 2026
Europe's response to Falcon 9 exiting the market should not be to shovel contracts to the dead-end, solid rocket technology Avio is flying. Rather it needs to invest heavily in rapid reuse, because what's coming down the line is even more of a steamroller than Falcon 9.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Starship will deliver somewhere between 1M and 10M tons per year to orbit.
Even if non-SpaceX tonnage to orbit were to triple, it would still be less than 0.1% of what SpaceX plans to do.
12:36 AM · September 17, 2026 · 540.1K views
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