The AI-generated cat pictures thread
"Why would you do this to me?"
Main reason is it explodes when it falls over, making it stronger would add too much weight. Also salt water is very bad for expensive rocket engines. The "reusable" space shuttle SRBs cost more than the whole SpaceX rocket just to refurbish.
Still less crazy than ULA's plan for their new rocket:
Also their new upper stage could use a piston engine for electrical power/restarting.
Main reason is it explodes when it falls over, making it stronger would add too much weight. Also salt water is very bad for expensive rocket engines. The "reusable" space shuttle SRBs cost more than the whole SpaceX rocket just to refurbish.
Still less crazy than ULA's plan for their new rocket:
Also their new upper stage could use a piston engine for electrical power/restarting.
"Why would you do this to me?"
Main reason is it explodes when it falls over, making it stronger would add too much weight. Also salt water is very bad for expensive rocket engines. The "reusable" space shuttle SRBs cost more than the whole SpaceX rocket just to refurbish.
Still less crazy than ULA's plan for their new rocket:
Also their new upper stage could use a piston engine for electrical power/restarting.
Main reason is it explodes when it falls over, making it stronger would add too much weight. Also salt water is very bad for expensive rocket engines. The "reusable" space shuttle SRBs cost more than the whole SpaceX rocket just to refurbish.
Still less crazy than ULA's plan for their new rocket:
Also their new upper stage could use a piston engine for electrical power/restarting.
Originally Posted by The Article
The new upper stage will fly with a piston engine designed in partnership between ULA and Roush Fenway Racing, a motorsports enterprise that competes in NASCAR events. The system will generate electricity and pressurize the rocket’s fuel tanks, transforming the upper stage into a long-lived space tug that can maneuver in space for several days.
Problem is those RL-10s cost $40 million a piece right now.