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SpaceX Starship

Previous peer review

This article has been nominated for GA and FA multiple times, each with a different failure and a lesson to be learnt. Hopefully, this time would be different. I welcome all kinds of feedback, from style and grammar to content and sourcing. Thanks, CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:01, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

• I did not check everything, but after doing a few checks, the sourcing looks much better. I might have comments, but I have many projects ongoing, so will let you know. Urve (talk) 09:51, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Comments from 0xDeadbeef

This is my first time doing a peer review, and I will try my best to find improvements, but I will not find as much as a more experienced editor. I'm also reading the article as someone who don't know much about rocket science.

Lead

• Starship is the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever built.
  • This sentence probably needs citations.
  • Its premise is a bit unclear: is it the tallest, heaviest, and the most powerful rocket on earth, or in the United States, or by SpaceX?
  • Also, the sentences around this suggest that it has not been built yet (will be mainly constructed out of stainless steel), if so it should be is the tallest [..] -> will be the tallest [..].
• Both stages are fueled with liquid oxygen and methane, and are propelled by variants of Raptor engines
  • It seems a bit weird to mention how they are fueled in the lead. It would look like trivia to non-technical readers if the significance of the fuel type cannot be established. Perhaps it should be removed from the lead? Space Launch System, a GA, does not have the fuel in the lead.
  • "Both stages" seems to refer to booster stage and the Starship spacecraft on top above this sentence. However the meaning of "stages" can be a bit hard to grasp from someone who knows nothing about rockets. Maybe add a link as [[Multistage rocket|Both stages]]?
• The planned tanker variant may fuel other Starships in orbit before they send payloads of 100 t (220,000 lb) into low Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
  • This part is a bit confusing: What is the tanker variant? It does not seem to be explained or described..
  • What does "they" in "before they send payloads" refer to? The tanker, or the other Starships in orbit?
• SpaceX plans to construct launch sites at Starbase and Kennedy Space Center, and to build two offshore launch platforms. [..] Such level of operation is only possible with reduced launch cost.
  • This paragraph is missing citations.
  • The last sentence is a bit off since there was no mention of any reduction of launch costs.

I will come back to this when I have more time and add more sections. I hope these comments have helped! 0xDeadbeef 14:46, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

0xDeadbeef, thanks a lot for your comments! I will add them to the article now. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 12:40, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

0xDeadbeef, I've only partially implement your comments. One of the rocket's premise is using liquid methane which have never been used in other rockets before. It is not really a technical detail when most news sources regurgitate this over and over. In Such level of operation is only possible with reduced launch cost., the article has mentioned it at the Applications section lead, though it is a bit short. I've also changed tenses to be clear that the rocket has been built, but hasn't launched. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:30, 30 May 2022 (UTC)