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It's much cheaper (and safer) to throw away a satellite than to develop and fly a shuttle.
by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
It's much cheaper (and safer) to throw away a satellite than to develop and fly a shuttle.
- sterlind 9y agoI'm in agreement with you there. but launching a new satellite for every task rapidly gets expensive. could you imagine the ISS being assembled by satellites alone? humans are good at assembling and maintaining things. asteroid mining will provide an impetus to develop assembly robots capable of matching human flexibility and autonomy. we're not there yet, though.