Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Why Starship Is The Holy Grail For SpaceX" video.
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@commonsenseskeptic yup, a successful landing but with a sticky valve is such an insurmountable problem! Might as well scrap the whole thing.
Back in reality, Elon has said that they gained enough data from that launch and landing to focus on preparing for a full stack launch, and so instead of spending more time and energy on hops, everyone is working on integrating everything for the orbital launch.
If they still had things that needed hops to test or figure out, they would be doing more hops, but once you reach the performance goals for that stage of testing, why keep doing it?
Of course you are a dedicated negative viewpoint, so you see any changes to the plan as proof of failure, when they are actually signs of optimism and success, that the team believes they are ready for an orbital flight on the next launch.
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