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New rocket, new engines, new targets. If Falcon 9 (the current rocket) was a motorboat capable of going from one port to a neighboring one on the same sea coas
by rtsil 6y ago
New rocket, new engines, new targets.
If Falcon 9 (the current rocket) was a motorboat capable of going from one port to a neighboring one on the same sea coast, this is the early prototype for a transatlantic liner.
It's designed to be much bigger, much faster and more powerful, while being fully reusable (like a plane) and extremely cost-effective, potentially 10 times cheaper than the Falcon 9, which is already the cheapest launch vehicle. That opens up all sorts of new possibilities.
And these hops are the first concrete steps toward that.