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Anonymous Fri Sep 25 16:08:51 2020 No.12160733 [View]
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Even if that was the driver behind the switch (which isn't clear to me, they switched right after the Falcon 9's best year), people have been talking about cheap steel tankage on reusable rockets going back to sea dragon.

If Starship was going to refly as many times as a commercial jet then I'd agree that carbon composites might offer some real advantage on lowering recurring costs but even raptors are only designed for 1000 reuses and a 747 could fly well over a 1000 times using aluminum. Carbon Composites would be overkill.

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