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Can Elon take it off their hands?

• dblohm7 6y ago
  It wouldn’t be useful to them. Among the modifications they made to pad 39A, SpaceX built their horizontal assembly building right where the crawlerway approaches the pad.
• dangerbird2 6y ago
  Probably not. Falcons are assembled and transported horizontally, thus don't need a mobile launch platform. Starship will probably be too big for it, and will probably need its own solution for assembly given its unusual launch and landing profile.
  • gpm 6y ago
    So far the SpaceX Starship solution seems to be commercially available cranes, commercially available "roll lifts" (flat beds with a lot of independently controlled wheels [1]), and simple launch sites that don't move around on land. I have to imagine that SpaceX's solution is orders of magnitude cheaper than maintaining this giant custom vehicle NASA made. [1] https://i.redd.it/wo6buoppcov31.png https://i.redd.it/wo6buoppcov31.png