XPost: sci.physics, sci.astro, sci.space.policy   
   From: droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com   
      
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   "Robert Clark"  wrote:   
      
   > Several companies are proposing satellite megaconstellations that would   
   > require hundreds to thousands of communications satellites. This may finally   
   > provide the impetus to produce reusable launchers.   
      
   What are the actual numbers when it comes to savings from a reusable   
   rocket?  It’d also be interesting to know how new technologies might   
   impact the economics of launching items into space (including just making   
   disposable launch vehicles much cheaper).  Once you start to contemplate   
   the need for multiple daily launches, even recovering boosters to reuse   
   them seems like a slow and labor-intensive process.  On the path to a   
   space elevator, it seems like there should be many more ways to reach   
   escape velocity that do a better job than what Musk is doing today.   
      
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