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> with the known caveats around cost of refurbishment Only the orbiter was refurbishable (not fully and rapidly reusable like Starship - booster reuse was demo
by timschmidt 1y ago
> with the known caveats around cost of refurbishment
Only the orbiter was refurbishable (not fully and rapidly reusable like Starship - booster reuse was demonstrated today), which took 6 months, and cost $2 Billion per launch.
The whole Starship development program is slated to cost about as much as 5 Shuttle launches.
- Retric 1y agoNearly 50 year old technology is generally inferior to modern equivalents, that hardly an argument that Starship’s R&D process is going well.
- timschmidt 1y agoAgain, feel free to point to any rocket of the size and reusability of Starship which is further along in development or has developed faster. None exist.
- Retric 1y ago> Nearly 50 year old technology is generally inferior to modern equivalents < Feel free to counter the points being addressed rather than attack a straw man. Obviously if Starship was strictly worse there’d be no point in trying to develop it. Suggesting a modern preproduction car is better than a Fiat Argenta from the early 80’s isn’t a recommendation, same deal with Starship.