[AR] Re: Re spacex falcon 9 landing
- From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:46:02 +0000
On 28 December 2015 at 05:02, David McMIllan <skyefire@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Basically, SpaceX has managed to bring a version of the Silicon Valley
" fast try/fail/fix/retry" cycle into aerospace, *without* letting the
"fail" parts of the cycle add much existential risk to individual missions
or to the company as a whole. And *that* may be the biggest single
industry-changing accomplishment that SpaceX has achieved.
To some extent. However, higher change rates to the hardware used to be
done. The Apollo missions did change their hardware between missions, and
other *expendables* often do make changes.
Whereas, the Shuttle *couldn't* change much. Although, even the Shuttle did
change a bit, the maximum payload climbed from ~20 tonnes to over 30
tonnes, but IRC (and I may not) some of that was changes to the external
tank- an expendable part!
Full reusability, in many ways, is a trap, at the current launch rates.
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-Ian Woollard
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