Anonymous
10/31/2025, 3:08:12 PM
No.16832464
>>16832443
>what's the issue with in-line bays for cargo with a booster
If you have massive doors like the shuttle you need to strengthen the spine increasing weight, if you have small doors you have a heavy lift that can only launch small payloads.
>do non-reusable fairings do a better job at holding the little sensitive bits of the payload in place during the launch
Any dropped fairing reuseable or not gets a decent chunk of mass staged off the rocket about 1/3rd of the way to orbit increasing deltaV and also drastically increasing payload to high energy orbits if you stick a kick stage in there. With fairings you can also fire the kick as soon as the second stage burns out increasing the Oberth effect.
>>16832447
>>16832448
>space is easier than buying politicians to let you do whatever you want
Doubt.
>>16832458
Not impossible just not economically viable, cap this post so you can mock me when 1% of global compute is in LEO, my best guess would be about the time our 20th O'Neill cylinder goes up ie. 200+ years from now.
>what's the issue with in-line bays for cargo with a booster
If you have massive doors like the shuttle you need to strengthen the spine increasing weight, if you have small doors you have a heavy lift that can only launch small payloads.
>do non-reusable fairings do a better job at holding the little sensitive bits of the payload in place during the launch
Any dropped fairing reuseable or not gets a decent chunk of mass staged off the rocket about 1/3rd of the way to orbit increasing deltaV and also drastically increasing payload to high energy orbits if you stick a kick stage in there. With fairings you can also fire the kick as soon as the second stage burns out increasing the Oberth effect.
>>16832447
>>16832448
>space is easier than buying politicians to let you do whatever you want
Doubt.
>>16832458
Not impossible just not economically viable, cap this post so you can mock me when 1% of global compute is in LEO, my best guess would be about the time our 20th O'Neill cylinder goes up ie. 200+ years from now.