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It's not that I dislike the idea. it's just simply impossible to do so with combustion engines/rocket engines that carry any load. The energy expenditure to rea
by 411111111111111 4y ago
It's not that I dislike the idea. it's just simply impossible to do so with combustion engines/rocket engines that carry any load. The energy expenditure to reach LEO is too stressful to materials known to man, and the tiniest issue causes full destruction.
It will always be more effective to recreate relevant parts instead of full disassembly, in-depth quality assurance and then reassembly
- inglor_cz 4y ago"impossible", "always" These predictions do not tend to age well. I am not an aerospace engineer, but Starship seems to be fairly hopeful. Already Falcon 9 shows that you do not need to fully disassemble engines etc. to be sure that they are OK. A static fire with enough sensors will do, and nowadays they don't even do that. If you look at the table of booster reuses of Falcon 9, failures happen, but they are infrequent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_boosters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...