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Those things were never seen as impossible, just difficult. Nobody has even a theoretical concept of how to move tons of liquid oxygen between rockets in orbit
by sandworm101 2y ago
Those things were never seen as impossible, just difficult. Nobody has even a theoretical concept of how to move tons of liquid oxygen between rockets in orbit. And there is some talk of banning it as too dangerous. Remember all those pad explosions related to fuel issues? We cannot risk that much space debris as spaceX goes through a learning process.
- kolinko 2y agoIf I'm not mistaken, SpaceX is already contracted by NASA to do on orbit refuelling, and one of the recent starships did initial trials of fuel transmission (internal for now). Update: - source article - $58M contract to do that - https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-nasa-contract-orbital-refueling-test/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-nasa-contract-orbi... - chatgpt confirmation + links to more sources - https://chatgpt.com/share/e/674b5c1b-d318-8004-b79d-c0eefc59454a https://chatgpt.com/share/e/674b5c1b-d318-8004-b79d-c0eefc59...