This is amazing. This is version 3 on a new launcher. It is my hypothesis that they went just too heavy for a single rocket. No matter what they do, they need bearing strength for that first foot of travel. We are looking now at totally different animals.
It started out as a ketty dream from lalaman. A shiny rocket from his childhood comics, pinched at the end. They had to roll out endless sheets of stainless steel. Now, the upper stage is getting blacker and blacker as they go to carbon fibre.
The tests so far have been with light loads, but this thing needs to take the heaviest loads for distant space travel. All limited by bearing strength.
Can't wait to see the new upper stage, and see when they fully load it with bricks, which will fall all over the islands when it blows up. Or not.
ps it's cute to be standard tyrant engineering when they are shaving 10%, but need a factor of two.
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