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You're stating an absolute impossibility for point to point rockets, but offer no reasons for your claim. I well remember rocket experts explaining why reuse o
by btilly 4y ago
You're stating an absolute impossibility for point to point rockets, but offer no reasons for your claim. I well remember rocket experts explaining why reuse of first stage boosters couldn't work. That it had been tried a bunch of times and you wound up reusing but without being able to contribute to the payload.
Then Elon made an insane sounding suicide slam burn. And he made that reuse routine.
Now to your claim. Elon's "fantasy" is that a rocket launch and turnaround can be made on relatively similar economics to airplane launches. If so, the cost of launch is $1 million, not $2 million. And so charging $2 million is adding headroom for things like accidents, depreciation and profit margins. It is ambitious to be sure. But based on the materials cost, this doesn't look like a fantasy.