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How would Energyia become reusable? Tail landing? Is there more to this, something specific that would make Energyia a candidate for tail landing other than jus
by usrusr 2y ago
How would Energyia become reusable? Tail landing? Is there more to this, something specific that would make Energyia a candidate for tail landing other than just "if F9 can do it, in theory every liquid fueled rocket could do it"?
- vpribish 2y agoall the concepts i've seen were horizontal landing mostly with fold-out wings
- usrusr 2y agoWow, that's ... ambitious. I'd imagine the extra mass to make an energyia-size tank+engines able to land horizontally to be enormous. It's not just wings (plus folding mechanism, if you believe that's worth saving a bit of drag on the way up) but also landing gear plus all the structural strengthening required. Sounds suspiciously like one of those projects you propose when you want something finer short term but assume that they never survive to the point where they actually need to deliver?
- Sharlin 2y agoAh, no, I was mostly just idly speculating that at least it could've been possible in principle, but there in fact were some (possibly unrealistic) plans to make it fully reusable, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(rocket)#Energia-2_(GK-175) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia_(rocket)#Energia-2_(GK...