khorum
Murder Apologist
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Blue Origins better start making a CGI of this too.
Oh wow that would be awesome. The whole mission stack was designed to be reusable, so technically the 2nd stage has some dead weight in it if they're never gonna bother to try to reuse it. He gave a talk in MIT or CMU a couple years ago and explained why he thought upper stage reusabilty wasnt a priority anymore. The falcon 9's upper stage is still designed for it, but some of their commercial missions have been for higher and higher orbits that the second stage never has enough fuel to decelerate and do a propulsive landing.
I guess the Falcon Heavy would be powerful enough to change that equation up... but they couldn't do that for missions with the max payloads, which is what ppl would be hiring the heavy for.
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