Seems like not learning from competition is a virtue now. How you plan to compete with Starship with something decades behind? And looking at the engine - yep. Definitely behind. Sorry, no german excellence - von Braun would be ashamed.
The same way Dacia cars are actually being bought? RFA's plan is solid, in my opinion. Work with slightly modified off the shelf high-end auto parts. Composites manufacturing, titanium manufacturing, turbine manufacturing, computers, even high-temp fuels, like kerosine and methane expertiese is there. Hell, building a mid-range rocket engine is easier than building a high-end drag race engine. What concerns me is the work force. QC, inexperience, car engineers and mechanics working on rockets. Feels like Boeing syndrome.
@@t3m3lkov85 Nope, nothing solid there. It is not about being competitive for small shit - it is about Starship launching the mass of ISS in one go. And being fully reusable. A small-scale backwater plan does not make it any competitor. Nothing solid there.
SHOULD BE INTERESTING. GERMAN ENGINEERING IS "HIGHLY DISCIPLINED" ... HOWEVER, COST... hasn't been one of their Strong Business Suits.
Well, they are decades behind Starship.
ARGO
RFA
Seems like not learning from competition is a virtue now. How you plan to compete with Starship with something decades behind? And looking at the engine - yep. Definitely behind. Sorry, no german excellence - von Braun would be ashamed.
The same way Dacia cars are actually being bought?
RFA's plan is solid, in my opinion. Work with slightly modified off the shelf high-end auto parts. Composites manufacturing, titanium manufacturing, turbine manufacturing, computers, even high-temp fuels, like kerosine and methane expertiese is there. Hell, building a mid-range rocket engine is easier than building a high-end drag race engine.
What concerns me is the work force. QC, inexperience, car engineers and mechanics working on rockets. Feels like Boeing syndrome.
@@t3m3lkov85 Nope, nothing solid there. It is not about being competitive for small shit - it is about Starship launching the mass of ISS in one go. And being fully reusable. A small-scale backwater plan does not make it any competitor. Nothing solid there.