Yes, I would never question anything that you or the folks at Sandia have to say about RVs. You really know your stuff in that department. No doubt about it at all. (Also, I'm in complete agreement with your comments on Mars colonization below.)
*However*, the extrapolation you make still doesn't stand. If there is no demand for 300-lb payloads at $17,000 per pound, that DOESN'T give you any basis for asserting that there is therefore no demand for 1,400-lb payloads at $4,200 per pound. Again, that's apples to peanuts. If you want to make extrapolations of that sort, you'd be much better off comparing the Falcon V to vehicles like the Pegasus, Taurus, Dnepr, PSLV, and Vega. Those comparisons would have serious problems as well, but they'd be vastly more instructive than with the Strypi.
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- Once again Mars exobiology rears its ugly head
- Could you expand...
- Then start colonization with the very first manned mission
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ;-) (n/t)
- Does the world appear more beautiful when you're on Thorazine? :-) (n/t)
- To me a solar system teeming with life on every planet would be a beautiful idea not an ugly one.
- Does the world appear more beautiful when you're on Thorazine? :-) (n/t)