Its some pretty crazy shit, that we literally know how to do… and just… don’t.
Because stock market line go up is more important I guess?
Gotta pay for more missiles to blow up brown people?
But yeah, aerospikes are awesome because they’re like the … jack of all trades of effective thrust at different ambient air pressures/densities.
They’re not the most efficient or powerful at any particular altititude band… but they’re shockingly decent at a whole bunch of them, across the spectrum, because of their fundamental design.
So they’re literally perfect for an SSTO, reusable concept. Definitely do a full inspection and maintenance cycle after every mission, they’re kinda complicated… but, if you take care of one… it should just basically keep working for quite a long time.
Yeeep.
Its some pretty crazy shit, that we literally know how to do… and just… don’t.
Because stock market line go up is more important I guess?
Gotta pay for more missiles to blow up brown people?
But yeah, aerospikes are awesome because they’re like the … jack of all trades of effective thrust at different ambient air pressures/densities.
They’re not the most efficient or powerful at any particular altititude band… but they’re shockingly decent at a whole bunch of them, across the spectrum, because of their fundamental design.
So they’re literally perfect for an SSTO, reusable concept. Definitely do a full inspection and maintenance cycle after every mission, they’re kinda complicated… but, if you take care of one… it should just basically keep working for quite a long time.