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That's a question for practically every existing launcher family, and none of them have yet to express a decent plan to handle SpaceX. Angara, perhaps, can surv
by jccooper 12y ago
That's a question for practically every existing launcher family, and none of them have yet to express a decent plan to handle SpaceX. Angara, perhaps, can survive as the "Russian launcher", for national payloads that they don't want to rely on an American company for.
Angara's RD-191 apparently can throttle down to an impressive 30%, so perhaps they could manage to "hover-slam" land their stages similarly to Falcon (though it'd be harder). But Russian speed in aerospace development isn't high right now, so it'd take a while.