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There's a Romanian space company trying to make first stage boosters out of super heating water.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKHI5VXisEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50kL6am6U8
Once in space, does it not make more sense to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy and use that as fuel?
I have the privilege of being the space startup founder. If you have any specific questions - I am happy to answer them. P.S. Going offline now, but send questions anyway - I'll to reply them later.
Is there something drastically new besides the change in the economics? From layperson's perspective, SpaceX so far has done nothing new that hasn't been done 50 years ago. Yes, robotic rockets landing on robotic ships is cool but that's not core space tech that changes everything IMHO. It's nice that there's a new way to go to ISS but Soyuz was doing it since ever and very reliably. There was a buzz about how the ne…
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In the last 50 years we did not have anything like this. Rocket re-utilization, now only for first stage but also second stage in the future is a game changer in the economics of launching a rocket.
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There's a Romanian space company trying to make first stage boosters out of super heating water.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKHI5VXisEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50kL6am6U8
Once in space, does it not make more sense to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy and use that as fuel?
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Is there something drastically new besides the change in the economics? From layperson's perspective, SpaceX so far has done nothing new that hasn't been done 50 years ago. Yes, robotic rockets landing on robotic ships is cool but that's not core space tech that changes everything IMHO. It's nice that there's a new way to go to ISS but Soyuz was doing it since ever and very reliably. There was a buzz about how the ne…
> From layperson's perspective, SpaceX so far has done nothing new that hasn't been done 50 years ago. https://bucket2.glanacion.com/anexos/fotos/85/2912485.gif In the last 50 years we did not have anything like this. Rocket re-utilization, now only for first stage but also second stage in the future is a game changer in the economics of launching a rocket.
This article is mostly fluff. It doesn't get into any interesting technical details. The core bits are: > Mr. Kokorich, 44, is one such entrepreneur. In 2017 he founded Momentus, a California-based company that seeks to revolutionize transport in space by developing in-space transfer vehicles that use water as a propellant. These would “complement low-cost gigantic rockets, like Starship from SpaceX and New Glenn fro…
There's a Romanian space company trying to make first stage boosters out of super heating water.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKHI5VXisEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50kL6am6U8
I have the privilege of being the space startup founder. If you have any specific questions - I am happy to answer them. P.S. Going offline now, but send questions anyway - I'll to reply them later.
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Using nuclear options to transform ordinary metals to gold should be less pricier than running a gold mining operation on an asteroid flying by, I think. Do we have anyone as an expert on any of those options?
Not an expert but here is an article on turning lead into gold. Spoiler it's radioactive. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l...
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> From layperson's perspective, SpaceX so far has done nothing new that hasn't been done 50 years ago. https://bucket2.glanacion.com/anexos/fotos/85/2912485.gif In the last 50 years we did not have anything like this. Rocket re-utilization, now only for first stage but also second stage in the future is a game changer in the economics of launching a rocket.
Yes it’s cool and being cheaper is a nice thing but what does it enable that wasn’t possible before?
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Yes it’s cool and being cheaper is a nice thing but what does it enable that wasn’t possible before?
Cost is the usually the main factor determining whether something is possible.
I know the talking points but what about the specifics?
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There's a Romanian space company trying to make first stage boosters out of super heating water.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKHI5VXisEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50kL6am6U8
Once in space, does it not make more sense to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy and use that as fuel?
