[AR] Re: Flying to Orbit with Hydrogen?

  • From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 08:32:04 -0800

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:09 PM Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Superheavy/Starship should be able to get to that cost, or lower, and
requires no new propulsion technology.

True, though it is not obvious that Musk will let SpaceX rockets be
used for power satellites.

The two problems are the launch rate for a serious power satellite
project is high, and the other problem is how much damage hydrocarbon
rockets do to the ozone?

Keith

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