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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: Reusable rockets    |
|    27 Sep 21 01:05:00    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              Alain Fournier presented the following explanation :       > It has been a few years now since SpaceX has started reusing the first stages       > of their Falcon 9 rockets. I would have expected that by this time everyone       > would have recognised that this is the way to go. I know that Blue Origin is       > also going for reusable. But I haven't heard much about the others developing       > reusability. Maybe it's only because I missed some announcements. So have any       > of you heard about United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, the Russians, the       > Chinese or others developing reusable rockets or at least first stages?       >              ULA has mentioned parachuting Vulcan engines home.              The Chinese have emitted drawings that look like Starship, but I       haven't followed that enough to know if they are planning to land them.              The Russians probably have reusable sketches.              I the small sat world, Electron has been practicing chuting home but       the helicopters aren't trying to catch it yet.              /dps                     --       Trust, but verify.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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