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After decades of dreams, a commercial spaceplane is almost ready to fly
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Why? There’s so many other things we could put money towards that would help people like climate change research.
It’s hard to imagine that a spaceplane would have a larger environmental impact than a rocket. Since we are going to continue sending things to space, a spaceplane would have a positive impact on climate change.
It’s still launched by a rocket. The plane part is only for landing. Whether this will actually work or be more efficient than ablative re entry remains to be seen.
Cheaper satellites are a good thing environmentally though, as it will be how any emission controls will be monitored.