Re:SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket
by diggernet on Saturday June 24, 2017 @11:50AM
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Imron said "compete with SpaceX". I don't follow developments real closely, so could easily have missed something. Can you point me to any other company which has landed a rocket after putting a payload in orbit? Because if they aren't deploying payloads, they aren't competing with SpaceX.
(Yes, NASA and Bezos have landed rockets, but only straight up & straight down. Nothing close to orbital velocity.)
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Re:SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket
by grkvlt on Saturday June 24, 2017 @09:50PM
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Note that the Falcon 9 first stage is not travelling at orbital velocity, or even that near it really. At separation time -- when it starts to slow down to re-enter -- "[f]or a reusable Falcon 9, [speed] is around Mach 6, depending on the mission." (Quoting Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO, on Twitter.)
Re:SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket
by babyrainbow on Saturday June 24, 2017 @12:27PM
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>Can you point me to any other company which has landed a rocket after putting a payload in orbit? Because if they aren't deploying payloads, they aren't competing with SpaceX.
Alright then. It might be true no one else had done this. but take a look at this, which might explain why no one else is doing it..
[1] https://www.quora.com/Havent-other-space-companies-thought-o...