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spaceX "makes aerospace history", launches satellite & lands with reused rocket
Daswiruch:
sick
Magus:
Funny how sometimes SpaceX seems the least insane of his ideas given their success.
Decepticon:
--- Quote from: Conan on March 31, 2017, 05:54:13 AM ---i dont even know how to put that goal into perspective
its like wanting to repair an undrivable car with an unknown number of issues in the span of 30 minutes
idk that doesnt really work either hmm
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it's not just that either, he's simultaneously giving australia the equivalent to a "we'll do it in 90 days or its free" deal worth something like $25000000 and bringing a car to mass production
Juncoph:
i don't doubt it being possible
if you have a well drilled engineering team that's large enough, everyone can divide a major task into a series of simultaneously completed smaller tasks thus cutting down refurb time
that or they go the american tank design way and they refurbish it by just replacing all the complex stuff in module swaps rather than taking the time to find damage in exact components
it's really a matter of discipline and infrastructure, of which i'm p sure spaceX has both
Conan:
--- Quote from: Juncoph on March 31, 2017, 09:21:59 AM ---i don't doubt it being possible
if you have a well drilled engineering team that's large enough, everyone can divide a major task into a series of simultaneously completed smaller tasks thus cutting down refurb time
that or they go the american tank design way and they refurbish it by just replacing all the complex stuff in module swaps rather than taking the time to find damage in exact components
it's really a matter of discipline and infrastructure, of which i'm p sure spaceX has both
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yeah ik but its just like
imagining a rocket being launched one day
then 3 days later its launched again
like something so massive and complex and put under so much strain refurbished in just 24 hours with a 99.99% reliability (or something like that since the cost of even one rocket loving up would be massive in terms of public image, safety, and raw cost)