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I think SpaceX is taking the re-usability part of Starship as foundation. Meaning they won't move forward until it's solved. With Falcon they added it as a bit
by proee 11mo ago
I think SpaceX is taking the re-usability part of Starship as foundation. Meaning they won't move forward until it's solved. With Falcon they added it as a bit of a secondary priority. They've spent so much resources trying to get the second stage back to earth. I think they should have just focused on getting the whole system flying to orbit, throwing away second stage for now, and using that platform to replace falcon. Eventually, they could refactor second stage to get it back to earth. But perhaps it's all too coupled that it has to be solved at one time (not later).
- iknowstuff 11mo agoStarship can fly to orbit, it's just not cheaper than a reusable falcon 9 that way
- margalabargala 11mo agoStarship has only flown 11 times. I suspect it's more cost effective than the Falcon 9 was when it had 11 launches, long before any reuse.
- exomonk 11mo agoCounting all those explosions as "flown" is pretty charitable.
- margalabargala 11mo agoIt's a technical rocketry term that encompasses all attempted flights, successful or otherwise. Your confusion stems from trying to use a different definition of the word when reading. Context clues are your friend here :)