Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours
by idlewords on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:46AM
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Re:Orbital Test Launch of Starship in ~4 hours
by dwaltrip on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:32AM
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It’s a medium-sized if. So many people said they couldn’t land the Falcon-9 booster.
Ignoring the mars stuff, the vision isn’t that crazy, given their track record.
Biggest questions in my mind are: how rapidly reusable will it actually be (e.g. refurbishment costs), how expensive will it be to scale up the ground systems and launch infrastructure, and what the induced demand will actually look like.
I’m taking for granted that they will be able to land the Super Heavy booster. It doesn’t seem that much of a leap from what they have done before.