Chris Remington@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 8 个月前SpaceX's Starship notches major flight test milestones, breaks up over Indian Ocean in final momentswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkSpaceX's Starship notches major flight test milestones, breaks up over Indian Ocean in final momentswww.cnbc.comChris Remington@beehaw.org to Space@beehaw.org · 8 个月前message-square15fedilink
minus-squarezhunk@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 个月前SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc. As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R’s: Refuse: refuse to use wasteful rockets? I don’t really know how to apply this one. Reduce: I suppose rideshares and vehicles with multiple hosted payloads are good Reuse: See: SpaceX Repurpose: Wet workshops? Recycle: energy intensive and would need tons of infrastructure to process and use on orbit
SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc.
As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R’s: