Re:Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades
by kllrnohj on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:38PM
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> The reason they've already cut the price of launch by about 80% vs. (say) the Space Shuttle is because they optimised the whole system
No, it's because their system is much less capable and benefits from having a starting point of 50 years of accumulated knowledge.
Take Musk & the Space-X team and plop them in 1980 and you would not get the same Falcon 9 that exists today. You wouldn't get anything close.
Comparing the space shuttle to the Falcon is idiotic, anyway. The shuttle had capabilities that no other launch system has had or will have anytime soon (for better or worse).
No, it's because their system is much less capable and benefits from having a starting point of 50 years of accumulated knowledge.
Take Musk & the Space-X team and plop them in 1980 and you would not get the same Falcon 9 that exists today. You wouldn't get anything close.
Comparing the space shuttle to the Falcon is idiotic, anyway. The shuttle had capabilities that no other launch system has had or will have anytime soon (for better or worse).