• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      We can argue about semantics, but they were moreso rebuilt from the same parts than reused as is. NASA found that it would have been much cheaper to build new SRBs after each launch than rebuild them.

    • Strykker@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      SRB boosters are quite close to literally just a big steel tube, and they reused them by dropping them into the ocean under a parachute.

      They still had to clean out and refurb every booster launched. And that was without the complex rocket engines that would get destroyed by being submerged in the ocean.