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They've given up on refurbishing & refueling the SRB casings for the SLS.
by Polizeiposaune 2y ago
They've given up on refurbishing & refueling the SRB casings for the SLS.
- lupusreal 2y agoSimply having to maintain one or more ships (continuous expense, year round, year after year), to fish those tubes out of the ocean (once every few years) almost certainly ate up any cost savings they could possibly get from refurbing the tubes.
- ChadBrogramer69 2y agoAnd this lazy, reductive line of thinking is how they got to $4B/launch.
- lupusreal 2y agoLmao, do you have any idea how much ships cost? The spent SRBs being sunk are the least of SLS's problems. SRB shell refurbishment had dubious economic sense when Shuttle was flying several times a year, but for something that will fly as few times as SLS it would be an absolute farce.