Yeah man I’m no expert but I don’t think you want to just send it when it comes to rockets. Flaky sounds like a no go but I’m not running the rocket show
I agree for most other companies, but SpaceX’s whole MO is to keep pushing limits and prototyping and testing. They probably could have stabilized the Raptor design and had something more reliable if they stopped trying to push the performance limits. This booster has some other big changes that are worth testing, so as long as they can get through stage separation, flying it as-is would have a lot of value.
Yeah man I’m no expert but I don’t think you want to just send it when it comes to rockets. Flaky sounds like a no go but I’m not running the rocket show
I agree for most other companies, but SpaceX’s whole MO is to keep pushing limits and prototyping and testing. They probably could have stabilized the Raptor design and had something more reliable if they stopped trying to push the performance limits. This booster has some other big changes that are worth testing, so as long as they can get through stage separation, flying it as-is would have a lot of value.