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While I don't agree that reuse will bring the price down further, I can 100% get behind the other points. Even the argument that demand isn't there because la
by qayxc 5y ago
While I don't agree that reuse will bring the price down further, I can 100% get behind the other points.
Even the argument that demand isn't there because launch costs are high doesn't hold - the bigger the sat, the more expensive it is and the trend goes towards smaller and cheaper sats.
Building commercial space stations (plural!) could be done using all-up launches and that would be like what - one launch every couple of years?
It's still early days, but it's not as if 100t to LEO is novel or anything - the Energia rocket could do that 35 years ago. The Soviets and later Roskosmos abandoned the vehicle, because they couldn't find a use for it either (after Buran was axed).
- panick21_ 5y ago> While I don't agree that reuse will bring the price down further Why? If you have to spend almost 10M$~ on an expensive high tech upper stage you your just gone throw in the ocean its clearly give you a price lower bound. > it's not as if 100t to LEO is novel or anything Starship does 150t in its early version while being fully reusable. > The Soviets and later Roskosmos abandoned the vehicle, because they couldn't find a use for it either The Soviet union collapsed and they didn't have the money for it.