Fuel supply is a bottleneck for Starship—here’s how SpaceX will get around it
by Stephen Clark from Ars Technica - All content on (#6ZR1C)
If SpaceX is going to fly Starships as often as it wants to, it's going to take more than rockets and launch pads.
First, there's the sprawling factory that SpaceX has constructed at its Starbase location along the Gulf Coast in South Texas. The building, known as Starfactory, is designed to produce one Starship per day. A couple of miles to the east, SpaceX has built one Starship launch pad and is preparing to activate a second one.
With Starship, SpaceX seeks to buck the old way of doing things. Tanker trucks have traditionally delivered rocket propellant to launch pads at America's busiest spaceports in Florida and California. SpaceX has used the same method of bringing propellant for the first several years of operations at Starbase.