alt Hacker NewsSpace shuttle was a reliable recovery vehicle too.
I see a need for maintenance crews and large payload recovery in the future.
Starship doesn't seem like the tool for that, and no tool is in development for it TMK?
Replies
colechristensen • today at 12:18 AM
no reason you couldn't make a starship with a cargo bay for recovery, it would just cost a considerable amount of payload mass
Recovery never paid dividends for Shuttle, due to satellites' degradation in orbit, and SPCX seems to have driven the industry even further from 'exquisite systems'. I love the idea of in-orbit servicing, but I am not sure it will ever work for unmanned objects.