This is John Batchelor, conversation with Eric Berger, colleague from Arse Technica about the delayed

launch of Starship Super Heavy.

Asking, when, gets no firm answer, not before November.

So I asked Eric, is this costing Starship Super Heavy's cruise money?

Is it costing SpaceX money? The answer is blunt. There's lots of money ahead

to be earned when and if these tests go off. In the meantime, delay, delay, delay. and space x making remarks about this delay from the

FAA was most unhappy here's eric about the costs more More of this tonight.

Yeah, the delays are absolutely costing money because, you know, they're paying the

Starship program largely out of pocket. They certainly have a contract with

NASA to use the vehicle for lunar landing. So, but, you know, SpaceX starts making money on Starship

when it can start launching, you know,

dozens of these large starling satellites at a time

to deliver direct to sell communications.

And so they, you know, once they get to operational Starship missions, they're really going to expand that business.

And also, once they start flying missions for NASA, they unlock a lot of milestone payments.

So yeah, it's absolutely costing them a lot of money.