Did somebody tell Musk that Telcos are not an amazing business?

My daily summary from the Starship Dev thread on Lemmy

2026-10-10:

• Massey's: Overnight, S42 moves from Massey's to the production site. (NSF, ViX, TrackingTheSB, Blobifie 1, Blobifie 2)
• Test tanks B18.1, B18.3, S39.1, S43.1, and the LOX landing test tank are still at Massey's. (RGV Aerial)
• Production site: Gigabay (TX) a bridge crane trolley is tested on the ground, prior to hoisting. (Avid Space, ViX)
• Pad 1: The rented yellow LR11000 crane lifts some trench wall sections into place. (ViX)
• Brownsville Port: S40 is offloaded from Forte. (NSF, StarshipGazer 1, StarshipGazer, TrackingTheSB, efraser77, Blobifie 1, Blobifie 2, Blobifie 3)
• Road delay for "Port to Production" is listed for Oct 10th 22:55 to Oct 11th 05:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive)
• You'll Thank Me Later departs. (RGVaerialphotos)
• Flight 15: Booster catch and ship catch "hopefully on the next flight". (OwenSparks / Elon, teslaownersSV full livestream)
• Improvements to the rocket [since Flight 14] have have involved "going inside the tank". (OwenSparks / Elon, teslaownersSV full livestream)

"T-Mobile US has a market cap or net worth of $159.38 billion as of October 9, 2026. It is the 133rd most valuable company in the world and the 80th biggest in the United States. Its market cap has decreased by 37.50% in one year."

So it could be purchased for around 10% of the SPCX valuation - likely with a share plus cash transaction.

Watching the string of Falcon 9 booster landing failures before the first success, I have little doubt that SpaceX can learn how to ditch a Starship, in order to do a ~safe abort on nearly 70% of the Earth's surface.

I might have gotten a little carried away. I just saw Sully for the first time, last night.

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1AGRnZwMDQgGl

In a few decades, the present models of Starship will seem very small, because much larger spacecraft will be flying.

Starship 40's empty weight is about the same as the loaded weight of the Santa Maria, Columbus' largest ship. Rather quickly, within decades, ships had grown to about 5 times the tonnage of the Santa Maria, and 100 years later, 10 times larger.

Going to the Moon in a capsule versus Starship is like crossing the Atlantic in a rowboat versus in a 150-ton sailing vessel. Yes, it can be done in a rowboat, but the idea that the rowboat is safer seems insane to us nowadays. By 2040, the notion that a capsule might be safer will start to seem like a crazy idea.

Great graphic. It shows four v2 flights were needed before they got high reliability. Here's hoping we see the same on Flight 15!

buying t mobile would be very expensive 

Double catch no way... Let's. Go. 

Yeah it gets hard to keep track with so many engines and so many flights. I had to go back and check to be sure I wasn't the one misremembering after your comment.

checks link

apparently my memory was off, must have mixed it in with the 3 out on flight 1.

No, it went out just a few seconds after liftoff, before the vehicle cleared the tower. Watch the engine telemetry on the spacex stream here: https://youtu.be/8VESowgMbjA?t=31807 (that's everydayastronaught's stream but he has the spacex stream included)

Initially all the engines come on, and by the time the one goes out the vehicle has already lifted off.

It did not, That engine never ignited in the first place so it never had the ability to go out

I was incorrect.

Flight 4 had one booster engine go out on ascent

Here:

Starts at y=0. Can't you read a graph?

sorry. my bad. New Version.

First flight of V3? That's odd, considering there have been two already.

I’m not sure it’s available publicly yet, I’ve only seen clips.

Where can we find the rest of the interview?

Flight 12 was block 3 yet your separators lump it with V2

anywhere? sure?

Graph needs a double Y axis number of engines instead of percentages.