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SpaceX teases another application for Starship

arstechnica.com SpaceX teases another application for Starship

"SpaceX could itself become a large commercial LEO destination."

SpaceX teases another application for Starship

Intuitively, it seems like if Starship is able to travel all the way to Mars, it could also work as an Earth orbiting space station. The major challenges that jump out at me are the different radiation and temperature flux environments. That being said, Starship has so much upmass capability that anything needed to make this work should be easy to ship up.

As for the floated idea of a wet workshop, that would be super amazing. But seems a bit overkill and perhaps even wasteful?

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