SpaceX launched the third test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, as the company pushed development of the mammoth vehicle past new milestones.
  •  zhunk   ( @zhunk@beehaw.org ) 
    2•1 year ago

    SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc.

    As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R’s:

    • Refuse: refuse to use wasteful rockets? I don’t really know how to apply this one.
    • Reduce: I suppose rideshares and vehicles with multiple hosted payloads are good
    • Reuse: See: SpaceX
    • Repurpose: Wet workshops?
    • Recycle: energy intensive and would need tons of infrastructure to process and use on orbit