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  • Are you joking? Well the answer is no, no the SLS is about 40 years behind as far as technology goes. It’s basically a shuttle derived launch vehicle, the boosters are similar to the shuttle side boosters and it uses 4 slightly updated RS-25s (the space shuttle main engines) in the center stage.

    Except instead of getting with the times and attempting some reusability, it actually has less reusability than the shuttle had. They actually throw away all of those expensive high performance hydrolox engines on every launch.













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    17 days ago

    Huh… A rust battery? That wouldn’t have been what I expected a long lasting battery chemistry to look like. You probably have to avoid using iron in any other part of the battery structure/electronics, I imagine the corrosion risk would be quite high.

    I wonder how their reliability compares to saltwater batteries or lead acid. Also, flow batteries seem like a holy grail for large scale storage, I’m curious how they compare to iron air.