Re:Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'
by wastedhours on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:28AM
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Surely there's evidence they're both trying?
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Re:Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'
by Aeolun on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:34AM
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Europe is trying to build a glorified cargo box. SpaceX is trying to build a starship.
I’d be more enthusiastic if we had 2 attempts at a spaceship.
Re:Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'
by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:57AM
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I am tired of spacex fanboys that cant tell the difference between a scientific mission for research and a commercial operation
Re:Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'
by Aeolun on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:26AM
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> "And this satellite that Airbus will build - I like to call it 'the first interplanetary cargo ship', because that's what it will be doing. It's designed to carry cargo between Mars and Earth,"
It has nothing to do with fanboy or not. I’m sure there are tons of challenges involved in making this happen, but I just don’t think a cargo satellite is fundamentally very exciting.
Having a human in orbit of mars would make the whole process of retrieving rock samples orders of magnitude easier.