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Super heavy-lift, frequent flights to space for Europe: Protein study results (www.esa.int)

submitted 1 year ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/esa@feddit.nl

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In brief

Last year, ESA commissioned a study to explore how Europe could develop a launcher capable of delivering 100 times more payloads to space than we do today.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Notables:

The potential proposed use cases of "a solar electricity generator and a data centre" seem not super practical.

The acronym is atrocious: "euroPean Reusable and cOsT Effective heavy lIft transport investigation" (PROTEIN)

The rockets look cool though. I'm excited to see what Rocket Factory Augsburg can do.