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Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Vector among rocket builders looking to Brazil for new launch site
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| 2/23/2018
| Michael Sheetz
Posted on 02/23/2018 12:08:23 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: SunkenCiv
Nope, the opposite is true. If the economics of launch had to do with the price of fuel, SpaceX wouldn't have used propulsive landing in the first place. As Moonman62 said, the cost of fuel is a tiny fraction of a launch. It's not the price of the fuel, it is the tradeoff of weight of fuel vs. payload weight into orbit. When you have to lift enough fuel to use for landing, that is weight you cannot lift as payload.
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02/23/2018 7:12:18 PM PST
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Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: SunkenCiv
Delos D. Harriman would be proud.......................
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02/24/2018 6:11:23 AM PST
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Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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