The Future of Space Startups in a Post-Starship Era

Space startups need to start preparing for a post-Starship world as the super-heavy launch system is poised to fundamentally reshape the space economy by continuing the trend of lowering the cost of launching mass to space. Starship will be capable of carrying a paradigm-shifting quantity of 100 to 150 tons of stuff to orbit, far outstripping the payload capacity of any rocket that humans have ever designed. Founders should be thinking now about how Starship could affect their operations, for better or worse.