• DogWater@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Y’all got the spirit but reusable rockets are SOOOOO much cheaper for customers to put something in orbit. That’s why nasa uses them so much.

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        7 days ago

        Not pictured (that’s called cherry-picking): Falcon 9 has 469 successful launches for a >99% success rate right now.

        • Zron@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          Falcon 9 was designed by a different engineer who has since left SpaceX, and was originally intended to have a reusable second stage like Starship, but that never happened either.