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Starship didn’t reach orbit. Starship isn’t a development of Falcon, it’s a new platform. You can’t use the performance of one to excuse the failure of another.
by MrSkelter 3y ago
Starship didn’t reach orbit. Starship isn’t a development of Falcon, it’s a new platform. You can’t use the performance of one to excuse the failure of another. Reuse is also meaningless without a public audit of what is done to turn them round. That’s not been shared.
- tekla 3y agoStarship didnt reach orbit because they purposefully shut the engines down early. It was literally seconds from reaching a stable orbit before MECO. > Reuse is also meaningless without a public audit of what is done to turn them round. Do you think SpaceX makes money out of thin air and thus can launch rockets using made up money?
- mavhc 3y agoWhy should it be public, SpaceX is a private company. However Space X offer cheaper flights than everyone else, so unless they're losing money, it's not expensive to reuse them. It didn't reach orbit on purpose, it can with 1% more thrust. Who said it failed, it's the largest rocket ever to reach orbit (unless you're super picky, in which case wait 2 months) It's built by the same people who did Falcon, so it's likely to be as good. Also they're specifically designing it to not be over engineered, because Rocket Equation.