/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11422782
Imagine not having to spend large amounts of money upgrading your existing infrastructure for vertically integrated payloads...

>>11422786
He means SpaceX integrates payloads onto the vehicle horizontally, whilst the DoD has some payloads that can only be integrated vertically because some of their components (e.g. lenses) are too sensitive/fragile to support their own weight.

>>11402364
>Jeff Bezos will do it again, won't he? His New Glenn will reach orbit before Starship and he will tweet "welcome to the club" when Starship is the second orbital methane rocket.

Your wrong on all accounts here, considering it’s all but decided now that ULA’s Vulcan will launch before New Glenn does. Furthermore, BE-4 doesn’t actually run on pure methane like Raptor does, it runs on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) which is a mix of methane and ethane.