On January 20 2022 01:46 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: All I see with Radian is the space industry version of Nikola motors. I tried to picture it taking off and landing and...didn't work. Design looks cool.
sorry for missing this the first time.
I can see this working kinda. A reuseable jet powered craft flying remotely I could see being easier to land with a runway that you can make to spec. The run times on modern jets are measured in the ten thousands of hours. Making a craft that doesn't have to survive such a sharp angle to leave the earth. China uses a russian plane I think to launch satellites. and that claims a lot more space and weight then a falcon heavy, not to mention that they're developing an even bigger one.
who knows tho I'm sure the russian super designs had a lot of issues that took decades to figure out. I doubt that making one from scratch will work.
I don't think it's never been done from a lack of trying. I just think when they get down to it, it's just not feasible. You're talking about a massive plane. That will take how long to reach the stratosphere? It's just going to be coasting on an incline burn and then what? At least with the rockets it's more or less straight up and out. I'm more interested in the quiet Sonic aircraft NASA is developing. That seems to have a lot more practical application.
Same reason I don't see the SpaceX Starship being used for point to point travel as many would hope. It would look dope, but I can't see it being more fuel efficient than an airplane (and those are getting closer to green technology everyday).
On January 20 2022 01:46 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: All I see with Radian is the space industry version of Nikola motors. I tried to picture it taking off and landing and...didn't work. Design looks cool.
sorry for missing this the first time.
I can see this working kinda. A reuseable jet powered craft flying remotely I could see being easier to land with a runway that you can make to spec. The run times on modern jets are measured in the ten thousands of hours. Making a craft that doesn't have to survive such a sharp angle to leave the earth. China uses a russian plane I think to launch satellites. and that claims a lot more space and weight then a falcon heavy, not to mention that they're developing an even bigger one.
who knows tho I'm sure the russian super designs had a lot of issues that took decades to figure out. I doubt that making one from scratch will work.
I don't think it's never been done from a lack of trying. I just think when they get down to it, it's just not feasible. You're talking about a massive plane. That will take how long to reach the stratosphere? It's just going to be coasting on an incline burn and then what? At least with the rockets it's more or less straight up and out. I'm more interested in the quiet Sonic aircraft NASA is developing. That seems to have a lot more practical application.
Same reason I don't see the SpaceX Starship being used for point to point travel as many would hope. It would look dope, but I can't see it being more fuel efficient than an airplane (and those are getting closer to green technology everyday).
The idea is that you get the craft as high up in the air as possible before using its rocket boosters. So that you utilize jet thrust for the first stage instead of rocket thrust. The Chinese claim to be able to do it with a much larger payload into the stratosphere and that the craft from there has a much easier time with thinner air to push aside.
112 consecutive successful Falcon 9 launches. Also, cannot wait for the Starship official update event. I want interior renders, or some proper fuel depot info.
On February 06 2022 10:01 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Heads up we might see the Chopsticks lift up the top portion of Starship to start stacking, when I don't know.
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