Comment by isodev
1 day ago
And the “side effect” of polluting the ocean? SpaceX is more of a let’s only do things half way kind of company it seems.
1 day ago
And the “side effect” of polluting the ocean? SpaceX is more of a let’s only do things half way kind of company it seems.
Polluting with what? It's mostly stainless steel and other inert materials.
You do realize that every company so far has been doing that to every booster for every launch, right?
There's 2 options if you don't want to drop stages back on earth. You don't launch, you land the stage.
SpaceX is the company that pioneered propulsive landing of a booster. You can say a lot about them but not that they pollute with dropping stages in the ocean. Even in absolute sense that doesn't happen often and that's ignoring that they put over 90% of all the weight in orbit nowadays