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Very cool, but is there really a future for tiny expendable rockets in a world of big reusable ones?
by gok 8y ago
Very cool, but is there really a future for tiny expendable rockets in a world of big reusable ones?
- wepple 8y agoYeah, RL are hoping to have weekly cadence. I suspect larger launch vehicles won’t be able to match that kind of regularity or response time for smaller payloads
- dtkav 8y agoIMHO it's a slightly different market. Dedicated launch allows you to do things like replenish an existing constellation, or go to weird orbits, because you have a say over where the rocket is going. Also it removes a big coordination overhead, and could be more "on demand". Then again, a reusable rocket on a regular cadence to sun-synchronous orbit could probably serve the earth-imaging market pretty effectively.