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>>11731596
> solid-fuel rockets can remain in storage for a long time without much propellant degradation, and the fact that they almost always launch reliably
but
> The lower performance of solid propellants (as compared to liquids) does not favor their use as primary propulsion in modern medium-to-large launch vehicles customarily used to orbit commercial satellites and launch major space probes.
Thus we have to find better forms of solid-rocket fuel, we probably can do it today the way we couldn't do it half a century ago.