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A re-used rocket should be more reliable than the first go-around. Purely because if anything is likely to go wrong it will either happen on the first run or af
by jpgvm 10y ago
A re-used rocket should be more reliable than the first go-around. Purely because if anything is likely to go wrong it will either happen on the first run or after N runs that is enough to wear a component out. N is likely much greater than 1.
- saiya-jin 10y agounless some significant wearing happens during descent
- rkangel 10y agoThat may be true in the long term, but that may not be true for the first few attempts until they understand the sort of things that are stressed/weakened/generally affected by the first launch.
- gozur88 10y agoThat's the hope, but we don't have enough experience to know whether or not it's true. The analogy people like to use is airliners, but airliners don't get anything like the g-forces or heat load you see on a returning rocket stage.