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Watching rockets land upright looks like some reversed video hackery, just unreal. Stupid question: why bother with that type of landing at all? Isn't it 1000x safer to just make the rocket land like the shuttles do? Or is not having landing gear that important?
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 02:46 |
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wings are very, very heavy. reusable rockets are naturally going to be a bit heavier than single-use ones because designing in robustness amd durability isn't free, but it's barely a rounding error compared to wings. the reason the shuttle had wings were mainly that it made it much simpler to do with the computer tech of the time, and because it made the shuttle able to turn during reentry and choose a landing spot that wasn't directly under its orbit with great precision, much more than anything without wings could have e: this won't have nearly the ability to turn that the shuttle did, but it will have some, and much more of its thrust can be dedicated to lifting cargo instead of lifting its own wings
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 02:54 |
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That makes sense, didn't realize the wings were so heavy.
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 03:20 |
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They still should just use a giant parachute and make it work like all the kids model rockets in existence...
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 03:25 |
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How aboht helicopter blades unfold to assist with autorotation on the way down? Elon wtf let's mix it up
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 03:31 |
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train a flock of birds to grab the rocket on the way down and lift it up and fly it somewhere safe. they would have to be desert birds because the rocket would be very hot.
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 04:10 |
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personally im a fan of warhammer 40k boarding torpedoes. just fill a bunch of unguided rocket with marines, fire them in a scatter pattern and trust that a few will get where they need to go
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 07:46 |
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OMGVBFLOL posted:personally im a fan of warhammer 40k boarding torpedoes. just fill a bunch of unguided rocket with marines, fire them in a scatter pattern and trust that a few will get where they need to go I think i get blockchain now
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 08:08 |
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Nuts and Gum posted:Watching rockets land upright looks like some reversed video hackery, just unreal. It's not that much safer. Landing the space shuttle was very difficult and any kind of fuckup during the process would have very likely killed everyone onboard. The wings were also very hard and expensive to protect from reentry heat. Most important reason though is probably that starship is explicitly designed to land on Mars and you can only do powered descent on Mars so it needs that capability no matter what.
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 13:24 |
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they should stop doing tests and just start launching poo poo directly to Mars if this is the success rate lets just roll the bones
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 13:47 |
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It’s also worth pointing out that the a) the shuttle was a massive political clusterfuck a la the joint strike fighter and never really lived up to its original mission nor could it after said political clusterfucking, and b) the shuttle mostly used boosters that were jettisoned in the usual fashion, and looked very very clumsy with them strapped on
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# ? Mar 7, 2021 14:03 |
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the shuttle could return satellites the size of a school bus from orbit though, and that's both cool as hell and never been done by anything before or since
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# ? Mar 8, 2021 04:33 |
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OMGVBFLOL posted:the shuttle could return satellites the size of a school bus from orbit though, and that's both cool as hell and never been done by anything before or since Because it's not really a very useful capability
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# ? Mar 8, 2021 19:26 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 11:08 |
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poverty goat posted:Because it's not really a very useful capability yes, but thats true of most things that are cool as hell
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