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Peter Beck gives great interviews on YouTube. About this, he said that helicopters are much, much cheaper compared to doing anything with boats. Rocket Lab's ro
by martythemaniak 5y ago
Peter Beck gives great interviews on YouTube. About this, he said that helicopters are much, much cheaper compared to doing anything with boats. Rocket Lab's rocket is small enough that a helicopter can handle it, SpaceX's first stage is just too big.
Blimps don't really exist, there's 25 of them in the world. You can't just go out and get a blimp and operate it the way you can a helicopter.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoI understand the low number of blimps, but it's not complicated technology-wise, and we're talking about a space company. Let me rephrase from blimp: How about balloons? Just use more. The failure situation of helicopters getting hit by the booster, snagging on the net, running into each other, etc seem all way worse that if blimps were doing the work. Although maybe if you had drone style helicopters it might be better, but like you said with blimps, do those exist in retail?