Re:Starship is still not understood
by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:33PM
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> Based on the fact that every orbital launch requires airspace restrictions, local road closures, blocked patches of sea and launch permissions.
So set up a [semi]-permanent airspace restriction somewhere inland, remote enough that there are no local roads to worry about, and don't block any patches of sea. And do the permission in bulk, obviously.
> major explosions (worst case) per launch campaign
Failure rate is something to consider in several ways but largely unrelated to the launches-per-hour metric.
Re:Starship is still not understood
by garmaine on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:04PM
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It can’t be inland, because there’d be a huge stretch of flyover restrictions. It’d be at sea on top of mobile floating platforms. Like the two oil rigs SpaceX bought last year…
So set up a [semi]-permanent airspace restriction somewhere inland, remote enough that there are no local roads to worry about, and don't block any patches of sea. And do the permission in bulk, obviously.
> major explosions (worst case) per launch campaign
Failure rate is something to consider in several ways but largely unrelated to the launches-per-hour metric.