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It's amusing that you posit the notion that instead of launching the rocket (its entire purpose to exist), they might disassemble it for scrap to save some cash
by nicky0 3y ago
It's amusing that you posit the notion that instead of launching the rocket (its entire purpose to exist), they might disassemble it for scrap to save some cash.
- mulmen 3y agoThey built the rocket out of raw material which they paid for. I’m not sure what’s hard to follow here. Rockets aren’t free. How is that controversial? SpaceX has built and scrapped 17 Starships, 14 of them without even a static fire. They have scrapped four Super Heavy boosters, three of them without firing. Test flights require fuel, planning, approval, and of course flight hardware. None of that is free.
- nicky0 3y agoThey could save money by not building any rockets at all, that's much cheaper.