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**KB connections:**
- [[Starship achieving routine operations at sub-100 dollars per kg is the single largest enabling condition for the entire space industrial economy]] — V3's 3x payload improvement moves this closer
- [[Starship economics depend on cadence and reuse rate not vehicle cost because a 90M vehicle flown 100 times beats a 50M expendable by 17x]] — OLP-2 second pad increases cadence potential
- [[SpaceX vertical integration across launch broadband and manufacturing creates compounding cost advantages]] — engine production rate is the new constraint visible in this data
- SpaceX vertical integration across launch broadband and manufacturing creates compounding cost advantages — engine production rate is the new constraint visible in this data
**Extraction hints:**
1. "Starship V3's 3x payload improvement (V2: ~35 tons reusable to LEO; V3: 100+ tons reusable) — if validated by IFT-12 — is the single largest per-vehicle capability jump in Starship's development history, potentially reducing per-kg cost at scale even if per-flight cost is similar"