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Standard for what? The first Dragon payload was a wheel of cheese.
It's just something silly they wanted to do. You can't seriously think the max payload capacity of starship to almost-LEO is one single banana.
Like heavy then, why did they not use an actual test payload before now already being done with starship v1? Hypothetical payload to orbit doesnt count if you never done it ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Why would they need to prove anything? SpaceX knows how much the vehicle can lift. They will be their own first customers with Starlink when they finally go into orbit. The re-entry and recovery systems are much more important to SpaceX and since they haven't inserted into a full orbit yet, what would it even prove? The haters are wrong on one more weird conspiracy?