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Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/01/04/boom-...

So yeah it’s gonna take a lot more money. I hope they get it!

> Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars.

From the article, it sounds like that's just the cost of development. They're going to need a hefty chunk on top of that for lobbying.

They may also find SpaceX eating their lunch, if the rumors of ballistic flights have any substance to them at all.

And the EPA doesn't curb-stomp them.

Ballistic flights make no sense at all. Consider how finicky rocket launches are about weather. So you need to go to the spaceport for your launch, hope that you don't get scrubbed by the weather and save a few hours? Hard to see how that makes any sort of business sense.

Some of the wind sensitivity comes from the hulls being long and narrow. SpaceX's Starship design will be much wider and thus more robust compared to their Falcon 9 rocket.

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