XPost: sci.physics, sci.astro, sci.space.policy   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Doc O'Leary   wrote:   
      
   >For your reference, records indicate that   
   >"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.   
      
   "Recovering" them?  In Musk's version, they land themselves near the   
   re-assembly plant.   
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