Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ...
by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:40AM
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Or maybe Bezos didn’t understand orbital mechanics and picked the wrong approach: They went into space and landed again, but they did not go into orbit yet (as far as I know) and landed again. De-orbiting and landing is different from just going straight up and returning to the launch site that is below your feet.
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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ...
by nickik on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:32AM
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What an absurd claim. They were not to stupid to understand how to get to orbit. The made the choice to focus on a sub-orbital tourist effort first.
Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ...
by Libbum on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:55AM
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Absurd in the orbital mechanics portion but not the rest. It seems that spacex has chosen the waffle cone, ice cream scoop and add sprinkles later approach whereas BO has focused solely on the sprinkles.
Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ...
by nickik on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:22AM
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They do it more step by step. But with the BE-4 and BE-3/BE-3U they have developed two fantastic engines that they can both potentially sell for use in orbital rockets.
They are also already far into the development and production of a orbital rocket themselves.
They focus on the cone, and slowly build up. By 2021 they will fly the third biggest rocket in the world with some unique capability.
Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ...
by valuearb on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:58AM
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The BE-3 is half the power of the Merlin and has only been fired in tests.
The BE-4 is a collection of parts thats never been fired together successfully.
2021 is hugely optimistic given BOs track record.