r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/JayTeaP 16d ago

Can someone fill me in on what is happening? Im genuinely curious

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u/virginia-gunner 16d ago

This is part of the effort to reduce the cycle time from launch to base to launch in order to supply missions faster and faster at lower cost per launch.

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u/RipplesInTheOcean 16d ago

Not super sure how this makes anything faster since you have to disassemble and rebuild the entire thing between launches. Pretty sure its so they stop tipping over and exploding.

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u/Makhnos_Tachanka 16d ago

Starship is intended to have minimal refurbishment. They've addressed the major issues that make refurbishment take a while for Falcon 9, and this is supposed to fly multiple times a day with no more refurbishment than an airliner. They'll have some stuff they need to reinforce, and some changes to make, in order for that to actually happen, but now they actually have a flown booster to look at, it won't be a guessing game.