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Originally Posted by skysurfer
In The Verge is an article about the enormous challenges which appear with such a project.
Personally , I rather believe in a space plane than in a rocket full of highly flammable fuel and liquid oxygen. Imagine an explosion occurs at Sydney Harbor spaceport.
A space plane requires less new infrastructure, as they can use normal airports with just a few modifications. |
Airport are big businesses, and usually monopolies, with high cost to use their runways. Musk is saying i don't need the old way of doing things, and to pay you for the priviledge. If you watched the presentation you would realise that passenger traffic is only going to happen when there have been thousands of launches and landings proving reliability of the reusable model. You could make the same claims about an A380 full of jet fuel.
A space plane plays right into the hands of the airport owners.