/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12294557
>>12294562
In all honesty Lockheed just has a shitty track record of proposing cool ideas that never make it to fruition. From their dolphin sex shuttle proposal to their badass HLS lander proposal, they seem to be their own worst enemy. It be ya own niggas

>>12112533
I'm >>12112498 and I never claimed it was a super heavy lmao. It's just a heavy. Super heavy is like, Starship, New Glenn (I think), Saturn V. Even Vulcan is just a "heavy". And I guess SLS is super heavy but it's also an anemic hydromeme POS

>>11927710
Yeah, hydrogen looks fucking good on paper. But in reality it's such a bitch. Its density is so low you need huge ass tanks just to hold the hydrogen, not to mention the fact that its density is SO low that it just leaks out of your solid tank, so you need a bunch of shit just to contain it.
>>11927674
>>11927628
>>11927610
>>11927566
This is a lost art. The attention to detail before CGI is so fucking cool
>>11927795
Unequivocally based

>>11836831
>>11836841
I agree, the Lockheed design is fucking cool. It IS flying in a Vacuum so hydrolox isn't necessarily a bad thing... but if you slapped some BE-4 on this baby and had it run on Methalox is would be a beast. In a perfect world where I ran Lockheed, I would change it to Methalox and sell it as a "precursor" to a Methalox Mars lander. I hope Lockheed flourishes in the new age of spaceships- they are a much better company than Boeing

Lockheed has the potential to secede from oldspace. They should buy out Boeing from ULA and focus on reusability. I really like their design philosophy and commitment to success, and they work well on budgets and timelines.