I still don’t understand how its cheaper than disposable. You have groups like Hamas who can make rockets. V2 went to space on 100 year old tech. Seems like a dummy old rocket should be quite cheap compared to one with all these control systems and the need to store descent fuel.
Maybe disposable rocket designs lost the hat and got too overengineered and expensive? Saturn V costs seem absurd to me when the USSR was also making similar rockets presumably far cheaper. Maybe the US defense spending model is just a poor one for getting a lean product developed compared to nations and groups that absolutely must be lean to achieve anything at all.
Maybe disposable rocket designs lost the hat and got too overengineered and expensive? Saturn V costs seem absurd to me when the USSR was also making similar rockets presumably far cheaper. Maybe the US defense spending model is just a poor one for getting a lean product developed compared to nations and groups that absolutely must be lean to achieve anything at all.