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And how would that work exactly? they had to redesign the entire launchpad just to hopefully be able to sustain starship. Let's say you go down in london (orig
by darklycan51 3y ago
And how would that work exactly? they had to redesign the entire launchpad just to hopefully be able to sustain starship.
Let's say you go down in london (originally they thought basically a generic spacesport would let you, which is no longer the case).
You'd need their entire boca chica infrastructure to fly that again...
- grecy 3y agoI expect once they finish iterating on the boca launch site and infrastructure and it works perfectly, they will then have their template they can duplicate anywhere in the world. Like starship itself, it will be complex, but easy to mass produce
- BurningFrog 3y agoI assume a Starship could be shipped on a ship if need be?
- Valgrim 3y agoOr the assembly line could be in a ship itself
- avmich 3y agoYes, suborbital passenger transportation looks least clear now :) . Maybe the Boca Chica launchpad will get modified/improved to be more compact. It's still at early stages of design/use, so maybe significant improvements could be added. Particularly given that the last redesign took less than half a year. E.g., a wall around the pad, say, with diameter of ~100 meters and a significant height, would likely protect environment from steam, gas, particles and noise to some degree. So the question with the word "exactly" doesn't have answer right now.
- darklycan51 3y agoYeah but what do you do about the 33 engines that literally blasted the floor off lol
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> what do you do about the 33 engines that literally blasted the floor off Worry about it when that’s the priority problem. Tackling that now is like designing blast pads before you have commercial jet liners.