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On January 21, Peter Beck, CEO of rocket lab, a space start-up, poured a basin of cold water on SpaceX's starship. He warned that SpaceX's starship could not meet all space uses. In terms of carrying Internet satellites, the neutron rocket of the rocket laboratory is more suitable < p > SpaceX first made the Starship public in 2017, with the ultimate goal of sending humans to Mars or beyond. Elon Musk, CEO of the company, said at the press conference that he hoped to "have a combined system of booster and spacecraft to replace the existing Falcon 9, Falcon heavy rocket and dragon spacecraft." This means that starships can also launch Internet satellites such as "star chain" < p > but Baker, CEO of rocket lab, said in an interview that this vision may be a little out of reach. After introducing his latest neutron rocket project, Baker explained that the Starship could not help build the Internet satellite network < p > "if you want to settle on Mars, starships are the tool to achieve this goal," he said. "If you want to deploy a bunch of satellite networks and spacecraft in low earth orbit, a payload of 100 tons won't help." < p > this poured cold water on a major function of the Starship. The reusable Falcon 9 rocket can launch about 16 tons of payload into low earth orbit, while the Starship can launch more than 100 tons of payload at a single time < p > musk also mentioned that it plans to use interstellar spacecraft for satellite launch. In June 2021, musk tweeted that the task of building a star chain satellite network will be transferred to starships. At present, the Falcon 9 rocket can launch up to 60 star chain satellites at a time. If the starship is put into use, it may mean that the launch capacity of SpaceX will be greatly increased < p > but the satellite chain is not the only giant satellite network in low earth orbit. Amazon's Kuiper program and its rival telesat also plan to provide Internet services through hundreds of low earth orbit satellites < p > the latest neutron rocket of the rocket laboratory plans to conduct its first flight test in 2024, with a payload of 8 tons. Baker believes that rockets with smaller payloads are more suitable for building satellite networks, because several rockets can send payloads to multi-layer low earth orbit planes at the same time < p > Baker said, "it's good if you want to put the whole satellite network on one orbital plane, but it's not particularly useful." "Having multiple tracks is usually more useful." < p > Baker also believes that it is more economical to use rockets with smaller payload. "Putting an 8-ton payload on a rocket that can carry 100 tons won't give you a discount," he said "The price of rocket launch is the same." < p > Baker believes that with the use of electron rockets, the rocket laboratory can complete 90% of the Internet satellite program in the next decade. And starships can still carry out heavy missions < p > < / P > < p > but can starships replace the Falcon 9 rocket? It all depends on whether SpaceX can provide starship launch services at an attractive price. Musk said that the cost of a single launch of the starship is only $2 million, which is much lower than the quotation of $62 million for the Falcon 9 rocket. (Chen Chen) < / P > < p >

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