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by jmyeet 5y ago
That was my point. The JWST was so complex in part because the mirror was so large it had to have the complicated unfolding mechanism to even fit on the choosen vehicle. When Starship is in service, I imagine a replacement for JWST with the
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by jmyeet 5y ago
"Cost" is a hard thing to determine of anything this complex. Obviously there's a development cost that has to be amortized across launches so how many do you expect? 10? 100? Famously for years the 747 was a huge profit cent
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by jmyeet 5y ago
> Did you mean that "improvements in the Merlin engine greatly increased" the payloads that Falcon 9 can deliver I believe that's what I said. The specs for FH claim ~64t to LEO. F9 is ~22t but it didn't start at 22t.
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by jmyeet 5y ago
I don't the same level of vitriol towards ads as some, particularly on something like search where there is a clear intent to find something and an ad may well be the most appropriate result. Like if I search for "Bosch vacujm&quo
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by jmyeet 5y ago
Falcon 9 reuse means expendable Starships probably will never be a thing (IMHO). Why? Economics. The Falcon 9 can get ~22t to LEO. Starship is planned for ~100t. If the net cost of a Falcon 9 launch (factoring in reuse) is $20m then that pu
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by jmyeet 5y ago
Not a rocket scientist either but I agree with your comment and expand on it further. It's worth noting that the Saturn V to this day remains the most powerful launch vehicle ever created. So why didn't we just build that again?
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by jmyeet 5y ago
It's really the people who are left after you eliminate all the irrational Elon haters and the rabid fan boys.
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by jmyeet 5y ago
I believe the general consensus of the informed is that Starship is going to take years longer than originally predicted. There's a history of this. Case in point: Falcon Heavy. It ended up being delayed so long that improvements in th
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by jmyeet 5y ago
This was an issue 10+ years ago and I'm shocked it still exists. In the early days of Google+, some people lost their accounts for not having "real names". Whether or not you agree with a real names policy (I don't), you