With 6x more propellant and 4x the power of today’s Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX was selected to design and develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle for a precise, controlled deorbit of the @Space_Station

Looks like there will be 30 draco engines on the back of that thing. Pretty Kerbal!

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    NASA is not paying SpaceX enough to design a new engine for this, so they may as well use what they have.

    • ptfrd@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      For $0.8 billion I’d design a new engine! (Would have to learn rocket science first but I’d be able to afford the best teachers, so doable.)