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Thanks for the specific numbers. > Still has plenty of room for smaller and cheaper per-launch fully reusable rockets. Upon further reflection, I'm getting mo
by Diederich 6y ago
Thanks for the specific numbers.
> Still has plenty of room for smaller and cheaper per-launch fully reusable rockets.
Upon further reflection, I'm getting more on board with this, with two big relevant factors: first, how quickly can these new companies work out the fully reusable mojo. SpaceX is clearly many years ahead, but having a predecessor company actually demonstrating a technology surely makes it somewhat easier to re-implement. Second: back to the physics. I don't have a good intuition for this, but I do hope that it's physically possible to efficiently do small scale orbital transport.
One way or another, I'm happy as can be that there are smart people (outside of SpaceX/Blue Origin) really pressing into this problem.