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That actually could be viable. First stage could fully envelop the second stage and eject it at the top of its arc before gliding back down for recovery and re
by yellowapple 4y ago
That actually could be viable. First stage could fully envelop the second stage and eject it at the top of its arc before gliding back down for recovery and reuse.
A weird design, sure, but there have been weirder ones.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoYeah, though I'm pretty sure that this "design fiction" (1) has more of a cultural point than an aerodynamic one. but IMHO "lets make it it look _another sex organ_" doesn't really either break out of the existing cultural framing, or design primarily around the extreme engineering needs, which have to come before the cultural ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_fiction