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prizrak;n3545622 said:Boosters landing is geek boner inducing but that means that they have a lower cargo capacity due to having to accelerate all that fuel that is not being used for boosters. There is a reason why neither NASA nor the Russians land boosters that way and it has nothing to do with technology considering fully automated landers have existed since at least early 90s.
Isn't the concept about the cost savings due to the reuse-ability? Carrying extra fuel would reduce overall payload, but if being able to reuse the boosters saves enough money, it could still work out cheaper in the end to do 5 launches of 12 elephants (falcon heavy payload to LEO) rather than 2 launches of 24 elephants using "disposable" boosters.
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