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Falcon 9 booster preparing for reuse testing at KSC
- hga 10y agoMr. Musk had described this first-time processing event as like a “dog catching a bus”, per working out what to do next.
- mjbellantoni 10y agoThe description seems to be pretty apt if you check out some of the videos of the work being done dockside upon the stage's return to shore.
- Gravityloss 10y agoWith frequent cheap access to space, we must develop asteroid resource usage. With asteroid resources, you can fly propellants and materials to anywhere in the solar system very easily. This is because they have very shallow and gentle gravity wells. Earth, Moon, Mars, all have deep steep gravity wells, which you can't leave with electric propulsion and you need a lot of delta vee. Bringing things from Earth just to low orbit means 98 units of rocket and 2 units of payload. Imagine traveling with a credit card instead of having to bring everything bottled, canned and packed up from home.