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The military is looking at Starship for…perhaps troop rockets right? So perhaps orbital constraints are eased. For the military—they want something that is the opposite, say of SuperHeavy. That is very ground intensive. But the design I talk about needs those tall legs for not only great cushioning…and lowering—-but to be high enough to launch itself BACK without infrastructure. Maybe vertical jets to assist? I’d hate to the one to do the math behind it. Having legs not stove the tanks in is a plus. The tanks might even be on shocks to slide past each other during heavy landings. Empty plastic kerotanks might themselves be shock absorbers of a type between upper and lower Saturn IB type plates.The point is to avoid an eggshell or punch throughs. If something does break..the break happens where you want it to in an articulated part than can be replaced…like a mechanical fuse.Just kicking the ball around here.If I am not mistaken, the folks in India use a solid as a first stage with liquid strap-one. Not the best on performance but good on strength. Heck, I’ve imagined a Shuttle II with the stack’s oxidizer where the payload bay goes in an unmanned orbiter, with an even simpler all LH2 ET designed from the start to be a wet workshop pod. The payload of crew or cargo go atop the ET…but I digress.I wish Elon well.
The military is looking at Starship for…perhaps troop rockets right? So perhaps orbital constraints are eased. For the military—they want something that is the opposite, say of SuperHeavy. That is very ground intensive. But the design I talk about needs those tall legs for not only great cushioning…and lowering—-but to be high enough to launch itself BACK without infrastructure. Maybe vertical jets to assist? I’d hate to the one to do the math behind it. Having legs not stove the tanks in is a plus. The tanks might even be on shocks to slide past each other during heavy landings. Empty plastic kerotanks might themselves be shock absorbers of a type between upper and lower Saturn IB type plates.
The point is to avoid an eggshell or punch throughs. If something does break..the break happens where you want it to in an articulated part than can be replaced…like a mechanical fuse.
Just kicking the ball around here.
If I am not mistaken, the folks in India use a solid as a first stage with liquid strap-one. Not the best on performance but good on strength. Heck, I’ve imagined a Shuttle II with the stack’s oxidizer where the payload bay goes in an unmanned orbiter, with an even simpler all LH2 ET designed from the start to be a wet workshop pod. The payload of crew or cargo go atop the ET…but I digress.
I wish Elon well.
