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Starship lunar lander missions to require nearly 20 launches, NASA says - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Still cheaper than one SLS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It takes a long time to get authorization for a launch. Does anyone know if there’s a plan to open that up and establish some kind of ongoing authorization instead of doing a whole government application each time?

Are we only seeing the paperwork because it’s new designs? Once the design has stabilized and it’s just repeating the same op again and again, will the red tape lessen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think that the hope is they'll be able to increase the launch cadence once they're managing to take off without doing significant damage to their pad and surroundings.

And once it's proven enough to take off from Florida or Vandenbudg they'll be able to launch more freely. At the moment they're moving too fast to risk the other launch infrastructure present there.