/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14513472
More like even if investor ran away the US couldn't afford to lose such game changer.

>>14513488
Politic, politic.
The reason Artemis keep going is because of sunk cost fallacy
The reason nothing new was done is because they rejected bad PR, the US could have experimented reusable first stage decades ago but it wouldn't "look good" to have rocket crashing until one stick the landing.
The worst enemy of the US space program is the US governance, a congress made exclusively of lobbyist and gerrymandered biparty...etc

>>14513497
Come on, I obviously meant not reusable YET. It took a while to retrieve F9 and the landing pad/barge were expendable.
Starship is considerably heavier, it require a non-expendable launch/catching tower, many more engines need to be monitored and it have to work flawlessly to avoid exploding the 2nd stage when you are trying to make it reusable.
I still consider it easier than making the 2nd stage reusable & safe.

>>12445796
Starship CAN hover, did you forget about these flights?
it's Falcon 9 that can't hover

>>12137247
sounds neat!
>>12137228
Yea I'm from Europe, the gravity is all fucked up here sometimes because of our shitty old medieval infrastructure and all. We still have to summon pornhub on the Magic crystal ball of fortune and as you might expect the browsing history stays on these forever which sucks because the telecom gypsies like to blackmail you with this shit.

>>12114517
>Even spamming perishable microsat in low orbit isn't a guaranteed income forever.
I'm sure holding the monopoly in dumping satellites into leo for cheap is gonna stay being pretty lucrative for a foreseeable amount of time.

>>12089117
I'm with you, they are easy to make and wholesome. Wish we had more /SFG/ parts. You know, with the descriptions...

>>12088215
t-try ctrl-Z a few times, it's the only way now!

>>12083494
Smartass