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Yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm an all-in SpaceX fanboy, I just think getting the stage back on the ground is likely a smaller fraction of the task than we expect
by JshWright 11y ago
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm an all-in SpaceX fanboy, I just think getting the stage back on the ground is likely a smaller fraction of the task than we expect.
- noir_lord 11y agoI agree somewhat however you need it to not become a fireball on landing first, then you need to figure out if you can launch it again at all and then you need to figure out how to get that re-launch cost down. They've designed this for that purpose but he mentioned in the post launch talk that they will do 10 test firings on this one before they re-launch it. I think they'll pull it off but they might have a few undergo rapidly unplanned disassembly along the way.
- JshWright 11y agoYeah, I'm just trying to balance the impression people seem to have that now that SpaceX can land stages, the 'reusable rocket' problem is completely solved. It's a major milestone, but there is a still a lot of work to be done.
- timdiggerm 11y agoWe had rockets. Now we have recoverable rockets. So now we can start developing reusable rockets.