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You should check out their presentation [1] from 2017. The whole thing is incredibly interesting but if you want to see some jaw dropping stuff, check the tail
by TangoTrotFox 8y ago
You should check out their presentation [1] from 2017. The whole thing is incredibly interesting but if you want to see some jaw dropping stuff, check the tail end. They plan to use the BFR (big.. falcon.. rocket) to carry out suborbital missions. In other words, you hop on the BFR. Take off in New York, enjoy some silky smooth zero g travel, and less than 30 minutes later you're landing in London.
I have serious doubts about this, but it's about time that people who have the means and ability to make incredible things happen became so aggressively technological that their ideas seemed doubtful. It wasn't that long ago that many believed that complete rocket reusability impossible (to say nothing of autonomous retropulsive landings on barges getting rocked around in the middle of the ocean). Then it changed it uneconomical. Then it changed to 'oh shit, we're now a decade behind technologically.' I now find myself on the doubter side and look anxiously and happily forward to being proven wrong!
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FY894HyF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4FY894HyF8
- TomK32 8y agoI think the use case for the suborbital hops is to reduce transport costs for those BFR that go from CA to FL and then to Mars. Shipping them trough the canal is something I'd like to see close up but also a bit mental. But then, western Europe's launches happen from South America...