>>12465430im fairly sure every space agency in the world already started planning on it but decide not to speak about it for pr reasons, clinging to the small chance that it fails/proves to be more difficult than originally thought of. Once its flying theyll announce it.
Also i think theyre waiting for spacex to advance its design so that they can take advantage of industrial espionage.
Hell, even only having the knowledge that it's possible makes doing exactly the same thing a thousand times easier. Plus there's everything that they can't hide that's in plain sight(would be hard to deny what the rocket is made of or how many rocket it has), plus there's all the fanboy speculations, plus all the true espionage and data buying they can do.
That's partly why Buran was way easier to develop than the shuttle, for instance all of the aerodinamyc testing was already finished for them.
That's the analogy im looking for, we want to see russians Buran-style response to the starship
