Name: Why Is Making A Reusable Rocket So Difficult? Elon Musk
Uploaded: 2020-03-29T16:30:49.000Z
Duration: 1 min 58 s
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Multi planetary is of fully and rapidly reusable overclass rocket.

This is a very difficult thing to do because we way live on a planet where it that is just barely possible.

If gravity were a little lower, it would be easy.

If it was a little higher, it would be impossible.

Uh, so, uh, even for an expendable launch vehicle, you know where you don't attempt any recovery after?

A lot of smart people have done their best to optimize the weight of the vehicle and the efficiency, the engines and the guidance system.

Everything you get, maybe 2 to 3% of your lift off.

So if you rock, it ends up being just a little little bit heavier.

And this is why only a few countries have ever reached orbit.

Okay, well, let's make it reusable, which means you've gotto strengthen the stages.

You're gonna add a lot of weight, a lot of, uh, thermal protection.

You've got to do do a lot of things that that add weight to to that vehicle and still have a useful paler toe of it.

And maybe if you're really good, get it to fall.

You've got addle that all that's necessary to bring the rocket stages back to the launch pad and be able to re fly them and still have useful paler 12.

It so very difficult thing that this has been attempted many times in the past.

And generally what's happened is when people have concluded that success was not one of the possible outcomes than that the project's been abandoned.

 Uh, I'm not saying we were certain of success here, but we're going to try to do it. 