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Variations of transportation vehicles can provide a better cost-optimized solutions for different scenarios. If they can reuse the shuttle a couple of times in
by velodrome 14y ago
Variations of transportation vehicles can provide a better cost-optimized solutions for different scenarios.
If they can reuse the shuttle a couple of times in space before they have to take it back to earth - that could be a cost saver. They use the dragon capsule (or boeing equivalent) to take people up to the station and use the shuttle to transport them around them in space.
I can see a lot of cost savings doing this.
Less weight = less fuel = more money saved.
- drzaiusapelord 14y agoThe dream chaser mounts on an Atlas V. Its a completely expendable 250 million dollar rocket. Not sure if there's substantial savings as opposed to mounting a existing (or soon to be existing) capsule on a smaller rocket. > use the shuttle to transport them around them in space. What LEO destinations are there other than the ISS? I guess you have edge cases of Hubble repair, but a whole delivery system just for that seems like overkill.