"To illustrate this monumental change in capacity, Musk pointed out that in a single year, a Starship launching three times per week could put as much mass into orbit as has been launched by the entire world to date (~15,500 tons). "
While that sounds impressive, the whole 3 starships per week for a year part just makes this seem ridiculous. Is Musk personally going to pay the <$10million per launch? <$10m x 3 x 52 = $1.56billion. That's just the launch. Never mind the expense of the payload being lofted into orbit. Nor the amount of time required to produce all of that payload. 3x per week is just an insane amount of launches.
While that sounds impressive, the whole 3 starships per week for a year part just makes this seem ridiculous. Is Musk personally going to pay the <$10million per launch? <$10m x 3 x 52 = $1.56billion. That's just the launch. Never mind the expense of the payload being lofted into orbit. Nor the amount of time required to produce all of that payload. 3x per week is just an insane amount of launches.