[AR] Re: changing hardware (was Re: Re: Re spacex falcon 9 landing)
- From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:22:38 -0800
On 12/28/2015 02:49 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
And he's doing the same things with rockets. He didn't go for
reusability first, he got a rocket that worked, scaled it up, and sold
it, got people to pay for it as an expendable, and continued to fiddle
with it. Even if the full reusability doesn't work out, he's got a
rocket business going, and the first stage reusability and Dragon
capsule reusability is looking quite promising.
Yeah, that seems to have been a "sweet spot" - start with a rocket
that is an interesting and useful launch vehicle system even as an
expendable - then its operations provide a series of opportunities
for development of intact-landing capability, and (as that is
achieved) a series of test articles for research on reconditioning
requirements and fatigue life.
-dave w
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