/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12174648
They're shuttle-derived! Which means faster development times and low costs.

>>12174652
The reason Ares I got cancelled was that the J-2X was too expensive, not the SRM. If Rocketdyne was still a real company and not a zombie government-welfare grift it could have worked.

>>12174658
Maybe if they tried clustering 8 together instead it would have worked.

>>11989594
>yo dawg

>>9517099
There were some proposals for something like that, but I think 4 SRBs as a first stage would have required too many changes to the launch pad (and would cause all sorts of problems with vibration and overacceleration). It's not viable as a heavy lift vehicle either, SRB-X was only intended to put 4 t payloads into GEO