Comment on Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next?
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoIt 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.
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?
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…
drdabbles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeeeah, so, you didn’t read your own link I guess? Because it says, on a Tesla simp blog, that it was a refurbishment. Not an inspection.
Here’s a nice write-up from NASA on what the SRB refurb process was. Feel free to read it.
llis.nasa.gov/lesson/836
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Again, I’m not trying to say these words have a single defined meaning. I’m saying that SpaceX’s reusable rockets are in a different category compared to SRBs. Call those reusable and refurbishable if you like, or call them anything else. I just use the reusable refurbishable terminology because that’s what everyday astronaut uses.
Do you know the turn around time on an srb? I couldn’t find it in your doc or in the wiki.