alt Hacker NewsIf the heat shield holds up then this changes everything. Next step is double catch and re-flying the same ships and catching again, then payloads to orbit become significantly cheaper opening a new era in space flight.
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segmondy • today at 12:01 AM
How many payloads are we going to put in the orbit before we end up with a new set of problem?
proxyscore • yesterday at 10:55 PM
This changes nothing, in space fuel transfer between ships is the make it or break it.
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Yeah, I'm eagerly awaiting results from inspection of the heat shield (which hopefully they will disclose). Reflight without refurbishment is the last goal they need to hit before the system can be considered a success. After that, optimizing for increased payload and nailing reliability will be the things to work on. And of course orbital refueling for HLS.