Re: Should "The Stick" be scrapped?
- From: "Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:33:40 -0400
"scottlowtherAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lexcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Jeff Findley wrote:
Push the flight rate up high enough and reusable
launch vehicles start looking very attractive with a reusable first stage
being the easiest to make first...
Ah. CLV.
Not hardly. SRB's are difficult to recover and refurbish. It's been
speculated here that the costs of refurbishment don't save you much over
building brand new boosters every single time. At the lower SRB flight rate
likely with CLV/CaLV, I don't see how they're going to become any more
economic than they already are.
Jeff
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