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Lets assume that is the case. That is where they should spend their cash to produce something of real value that can be reused. Simulation close to perfection
by GizmoSwan 6y ago
Lets assume that is the case.
That is where they should spend their cash to produce something of real value that can be reused. Simulation close to perfection is the end game. Not sending something chunky into space.
- avmich 6y agoNo. It's way easier today to test than to solve that problem.
- GizmoSwan 6y agoThey will get a single rocket from that ideology and get stuck again in the loop later on with any big modification.
- avmich 6y agoFalcon 9 now flies and lands with no crashes, especially comparing to expendable rockets. Of course a modification big enough will require changing control parameters, but that's a routine task for engineering. Some day we'll have good enough models for air flows in all necessary modes and good enough computers to run those models; we aren't there yet. Testing is still required.
- NortySpock 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2580&v=vYA0f6R5KAI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2580&v=vYA0f6R5KAI&feature=y... Yeah, they were doing high fidelity high performance computational fluid dynamics simulations and aerodynamic simulations by 2015. So I think they've done the sims, and now they're doing it in real life.