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What benefits in design do small rockets have? Are there aspects of construction/aerodynamics/materials/other effects that get easier when the rocket gets small
by owenversteeg 8y ago
What benefits in design do small rockets have? Are there aspects of construction/aerodynamics/materials/other effects that get easier when the rocket gets smaller?
(I say this because I'd personally love to see more small rockets reaching orbit, and I'm wondering how that might be made possible)
- PeterisP 8y agoThe only advantage seems to be if you need to get lots of small payloads into very different orbits, for everything else the square-cube law and other economies of scale work against small rockets.
- gnode 8y agoThe primary benefit seems to be the lower cost / mass producibility. An alternative to making launch vehicles reusable, is to make their production automated and inexpensive. This is a lot more practical when they're on the scale of a family car, rather than a container ship.