Comment on Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next?

• drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, just basic research would answer this for you. But I’ll start you off with an easy one. The SRB on shuttle launches was reusable. Now go forth and look up rocket history.

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure, fishing a burning bucket out of the ocean is the same as an actual rocket that lands by itself and just needs to be refueled.

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    • drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you tried just a little harder, he’ll notice you.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Have you not noticed how gross you feel when you talk that way?

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It depends how you define your terms. The parts were disassembled, cleaned, inspected, and reassembled. That’s not what most people think of as reusable, more like refurbishable. And anyway, they didn’t save any cost or time doing that vs building new ones, hence why SLS is using them as single use.

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    • drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t depend on how I define my terms. It was reused. You literally just fucking said it was reused. What you just described is the exact definition of what everyone considers reused. This is such a stupid conversation to have, and only the SpaceX sense are the ones that ever want to have it.

      Also, because you don’t seem to know anything about anything, what you described is exactly what SpaceX does. How the fuck did you get this so wrong?

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      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        SpaceX turned around a falcon 9 booster in 9 days. No way they did a full rebuild in that time.

        teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-9-new-booster-turnaro…

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  • noUsernamesLef7@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The shuttle SRB’s were really only reusable in the same sense that the engine from a wrecked car can be removed, stripped to a bare block, bored out, rebuilt, and placed into a new car is reusable. Hard to say exactly how long it took to turn around SRB segments, but just the rail transport between Utah and Florida was 12 days each way. SpaceX has turned around Falcon 9 boosters in under a month.

    And even with all of that, the most reused reusable segments barely flew a dozen times. There is one Falcon 9 first stage that has now flown 18 times.

    You’re not wrong about parts having been reused in the past but the scale of what has been done before really doesn’t compare to what SpaceX does now.

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    • drdabbles@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Looks like you also need to review the publicly available NASA documentation for refurbishment.

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