In r/SpaceX, commenters weigh Musk's 4 to 6 weeks claim against skepticism that Starship schedule and test risk could be managed to avoid negative optics ahead of an IPO.
Elon Musk: Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away
After the IPO is Mars just a pipe dream? No reason for a board to throw money at mars with shareholder profits on the line.
The cynic in me wonders if this is why SpaceX keeps pushing back the next Starship test flight, to the point where we don't know if it will even happen before the IPO.
Maybe they don't want a potentially embarrassing failure of Mk.3 before they can do it.
If SpaceX pulls off Starship and Terafab this is going to look like a bargain. But those are big ifs.
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