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I think the point is that it relies on it's fins much more than previous designs, and less on thrust vectoring and steering thrusters than traditional designs.
by beerandt 7y ago
I think the point is that it relies on it's fins much more than previous designs, and less on thrust vectoring and steering thrusters than traditional designs.
It's more like comparing a traditional airplane to a B-2 / flying wing design; it's doable, but difficult and not without risk.
- gpm 7y agoI have no trouble with saying that it's a novel design and that brings a lot of risk. Saying it has a "design error" though is the height of arrogance, it's highly unlikely that any commentor here is thinking of anything that SpaceX engineers haven't thought of a hundred times already. Trying to back up that statement with "there is a part that might fail" moves from just being arrogant to also being completely ridiculous. If there is any industry that likes redundancy whenever possible it is the space industry. It has been considered, many times over.