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Solid rockets will never be effectively reusable. They may have made sense early on, but in 2022 they're clearly an evolutionary dead end.
by allenrb 4y ago
Solid rockets will never be effectively reusable. They may have made sense early on, but in 2022 they're clearly an evolutionary dead end.
- panick21_ 4y agoThey didn't actually make sense early on. Continuing rockets like Saturn 1B and doing a Saturn 1C would have been vastly smarter then all the Atlas/Thor rockets since then. Solids were a result of military launchers wanting to continue to relay on technology for ICBMs and those ICBM producers having political influence. Solids are a sad unnecessary diversion. They massively increase operation complexity from manufacturing to launch.