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Depending on the design, the craft could be assembled at off one of the docks for the ISS. Assembly would be little different than the actual construction of th
by jacoblambda 10y ago
Depending on the design, the craft could be assembled at off one of the docks for the ISS. Assembly would be little different than the actual construction of the ISS and could be launched with cheaper and less bureaucratically constricted launch systems.
- dogma1138 10y agoAgain no one currently does this atm, and there are no "cheaper and less bureaucratically constricted launch systems" atm to launch these things. SpaceX isn't ready for these kinds of launches it's not proven enough. ULA is just a " bureaucratically constricted" as the SLS. I don't understand why people are proposing to play around with projects that are already insanely risky and hard to approve, we get to send a probe to Europa, which on it's own is complicated enough and now you want to build a whole orbital launch platform around it? Let the industry do it, blow up some stuff in orbit till they make it work, blow up some more stuff in transit till they get things sorted and then lets use it to launch billion dollar probes to Jupiter.