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I doubt this vehicle will be used for landing on Earth(why not use parachutes?). I would rather send it to Mars orbit and reuse it there as a landing module, bu
by dotborg 14y ago
I doubt this vehicle will be used for landing on Earth(why not use parachutes?). I would rather send it to Mars orbit and reuse it there as a landing module, but not take it back to Earth.
- JulianMorrison 14y agoWhy not use chutes? Because with rockets, you can steer, and fine-tune the rate of descent. You don't need to splash down at sea, you can land on solid ground, and pick which bit of ground to land on (such as a spaceport). It's less of a bumpy ride and cheaper to recover.
- gus_massa 14y agoThe auxiliary solid fuel rockets of the space shuttle slashed in the sea with parachutes and were "reusable". But they were so bumped that the refurbishment procedure involved a lot of handwork and iirc more than a month.