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minus-squarePeppycitolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 hours agoHalf of the rocket still gets disposed and “burns up”. There’s nothing clean about injecting kerosene and methane into the upper atmosphere.
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoSure. That’s why I’m looking forward to Starship, and, in the distant future, a space elevator. But we need rapidly reusable rockets before we can build an elevator.
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Half of the rocket still gets disposed and “burns up”. There’s nothing clean about injecting kerosene and methane into the upper atmosphere.
Sure. That’s why I’m looking forward to Starship, and, in the distant future, a space elevator. But we need rapidly reusable rockets before we can build an elevator.