>>12263245>I’ve been under the impression that the payloads are almost always way more expensive than the launcher.because if your rocket costs 100 million and even if you had the money to pay another one you probably have to wait at least a couple of months even years before trying again then you have to make sure its reliable, absurdly reliable oh and also extremely light weight becasue cost of $/kg to leo is too high
that ends up in having every component custom designed by a team of 100.000 harvard graduates that earn a ton of money and each of those components is hand crafted by 100.000 ultra skilled workers that have to be lured with ultra high salaries. all of this for an acceptable 0.0000000001% chance of failure
but if oyuo take that off of your equation you could make your starship out of literal shitty steel modules in any regular foundry and just put it up by pieces, achieve a 0.01% failure rate and if it fails well you can still send 200 of those for the same price than a traditioanl probe
this is literally a god tier advancement of science and tecnology that will resul,tl in technopositivist future of the mind
