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Will starship land with enough fuel to take off and return to friendly territory? Can starship land in Earth like gravity on a standard concrete area? Concord
by iso1631 6y ago
Will starship land with enough fuel to take off and return to friendly territory?
Can starship land in Earth like gravity on a standard concrete area?
Concorde's heels were
1) No supersonic over water
2) Limited Range
3) Limited use to reclaim development costs and ongoing maintenence costs
4) Eating into their owners fares -- standard London-NY cost was £8k return, or £13k today. That's in the same ballpark as an F return pre-covid, so BA weren't making more money.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoAnd the NIMBY / NIH lobbying I think you meant no supersonic overland
- iso1631 6y agoYup, overland. Not many nimbys if you're 20 miles off the coast of NY going to 20 mile off the Singapore coast (not that nimbys would have any say in Singapore), and nobody en-route would even know it's flying overhead. OK you have a 30 minute ride at each end from downtown, but that's not much more than going to JFK/Changi from downtown. 1 hour checkin and 1 hour flight, you're doing end to end in 3 hours rather than 22.
- jccooper 6y ago> Will starship land with enough fuel to take off and return to friendly territory? No. If you want it back, you land at a friendly base. The nominal use would not likely to be for insertion but logistics, like a really fast C-17. It's intended to be quite cheap to build, however, so it's not impossible that it could be used one way (in a very high-value operation.) > Can starship land in Earth like gravity on a standard concrete area? Yes. They're doing that right now. Taking off from a flat pad, however, is unlikely, at least in current configuration. A "tactical" version with pre-main-ignition "hop" engines, like planned for the lunar lander version, might allow such ops (providing you can provide large quantities of liquid methane and oxygen on site!)