Starprophet (PBUH) on Nostr: Stoke Aerospace: Stoke's Nova Rocket: There's a tremendous advantage for fully ...

Stoke Aerospace:

Stoke's Nova Rocket:

There's a tremendous advantage for fully reusable orbital rockets over fully expendable rockets.

Even though Nova can only put 3 mT into LEO in its fully reusable configuration, a fleet of fully reusable rockets can launch on a daily basis. That's potentially over 90 mT each month, assuming one launch per day. Nova, however, is a small fully reusable rocket, so it could launch many times each day.
Contrast that 90 mT with the expendable Atlas V. Even though Atlas V can put 19mT into LEO, it only launched once every 3 months average. That amounts to 6 mT per month for the large expendable Atlas V.
Even a small fully reusable rocket will put more cheap mass produced satellites into orbit than a large fully expendable rocket.

#Space #StokeAerospace #Nova #AtlasV #SpaceX #Starship
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quoting nevent1q…h097

Stoke Aerospace:

Stoke's Nova Rocket update.



https://www.stokespace.com/introducing-andromeda/


Andromeda engine for Stoke's reusable upperstage. A semi-aerospike design that uses a ring of thrust chambers around a metallic regeneratively-cooled heat shield.(pictured)


The first stage of Stoke's fully reusable orbital rocket uses 7 Zenith methalox FFSC engines (), while the upper stage's Andromeda engine uses hydrolox.

#Space #StokeAerospace #Nova
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