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The only customer is the government.This is SpaceX's way of saying that if NASA starts development of an HLV, they want a piece of the pie. But their biggest problem right now is proving that they are more than a boutique operation. Can they launch more than one or two mid-sized rockets per year? Taking on development of a very large engine and a very large rocket is probably not realistic for a company with limited experience.One thing that is interesting from those charts is the performance boost from switching to RP for the first stage. It really gives a lot better performance than H2/LOX. Anybody have a simple explanation as to why that is?
The only customer is the government.
This is SpaceX's way of saying that if NASA starts development of an HLV, they want a piece of the pie. But their biggest problem right now is proving that they are more than a boutique operation. Can they launch more than one or two mid-sized rockets per year? Taking on development of a very large engine and a very large rocket is probably not realistic for a company with limited experience.
One thing that is interesting from those charts is the performance boost from switching to RP for the first stage. It really gives a lot better performance than H2/LOX. Anybody have a simple explanation as to why that is?
