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Anonymous Fri, Mar 6, 2020 10:55:21 No.11445268 [View]
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>>11445245
>Spaceflight is full of untried ideas which may or may not be worth it, but nobody actually tried them.

>Space tethers of different kinds

https://spacenews.com/tethers-unlimited-says-early-results-of-deorbit-hardware-test-promising/

>inflatable decelerators (actually tried and proven true in IRDT but never continued)

NASA are planning to test a large one in 2022 (pic-related) and ULA’s reusability plans for Vulcan involve one.

>small winged capsules with relaxed failure modes like Spiral/Kliper/Dreamchaser

A fuck ton of lifting bodies have been atmospherically tested and Dreamchaser will actually go to space in 2021.

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