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Do you think Starship will ever be reliable enough to fly over populated areas? Maybe not over big cities but like airplanes maybe?
The noise is likely what keeps them away from populated areas. Similar to the concord.
Reliably - I think they’ll fly often enough to get falcon 9 like reliability
I don't think any spacecraft is, not even the Soyuz rockets that were basically bulletproof for decades.
No matter how advanced it is, a rocket is basically a giant soda can filled with explosives. The mass fraction is just so different than an airplane, so it has to be treated accordingly.