Another date set for Falcon 9 Heavy

"Rick Jones" wrote in message ...

bob haller wrote:
now what could we put in orbit thats massive enough to make a high
flight rate affordable?

besides dont forget SLS cost is just the booster......... what sort
of payload would be worth it

Just a peanut-gallery guess, but a big, honking solar power satellite
is the first and only thing which comes to mind.

"Maybe". But there's a lot of economic reasons against pretty much any sort
of SPS (basically while you lose a lot of hours of sunshine here on earth,
driving a truck up and fixing deploying and fixing your solar panels is
helluva a lot cheaper than doing so at GEO.

I think if we had a robust Mars program and had to build something like
Hermes from The Martian, then, it might make sense to loft large single
payloads.

But even then, I suspect multiple Falcon 9 launches would be cheaper.



rick jones

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