/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10740643
Nah, the launch cost isn't a significant factor at all. Scientific instruments will always cost crazy money even with free launches. And most serious spacecraft, especially interplanetary probes, are more complex and expensive than rockets. Getting to space is the least important part, staying there in an operable condition, landing on a planet, etc is much more difficult. Just try reading something like pic related to get a glimpse of how hard it is.

But I guess this general is inhabited by brainlets who are into everything loud and exciting, not into the less visible (but much more complex) parts of spaceflight, because they don't appear in their twitter feed. OP with his landing gears is a good example: landing on Moon was relatively easy; the ascent, LOR and docking was much more complex. But I never see anyone talking about that, because wannabe spaceflight enthusiasts aren't into engineering or science, they are into flag planting.

>>10740699
I mostly shitpost about rockets with others. I'm also stating the obvious. Even if you're into engineering, the thread is objectively shit quality. Right now one of the most complex spacecraft ever built goes through a critical phase of the mission, and the only response it's getting here is
>a fucking space rock