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If it is not vital to have a HLV for lunar return, it would certainly be preferred. Just not a NASA monstrosity. [[User:T.Neo|T.Neo]] 09:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC) | If it is not vital to have a HLV for lunar return, it would certainly be preferred. Just not a NASA monstrosity. [[User:T.Neo|T.Neo]] 09:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC) | ||
| + | *As far as I know there is no need for HLVs to start a lunar colony. The costs of maintaining launch facilities for HLVs are outsized just as the rockets are outsized. Since HLVs are infrequently launched, the annual maintenance costs are spread over few launches making HLVs expensive per pound of payload. Eliminating an entire unneeded class of launch vehicle results in savings that should not be missed.--[[User:Farred|Farred]] 14:24, 22 October 2008 (UTC) | ||
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The assemblers need not be nano. Self-replicating factories will at first be very big. A good way to simplify the replication process is to have shared componentsmarsp.
As for HLVs, do not fixate on Ares V, constellation and NASA. One example is Sea Dragon. Sea Dragon had a payload capacity of 500 tons or so. HLVs have ~100, MLVs, say, ~20 tons. How hard would it be to scale down Sea Dragon to the size of an HLV or MLV?
If it is not vital to have a HLV for lunar return, it would certainly be preferred. Just not a NASA monstrosity. T.Neo 09:39, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
- As far as I know there is no need for HLVs to start a lunar colony. The costs of maintaining launch facilities for HLVs are outsized just as the rockets are outsized. Since HLVs are infrequently launched, the annual maintenance costs are spread over few launches making HLVs expensive per pound of payload. Eliminating an entire unneeded class of launch vehicle results in savings that should not be missed.--Farred 14:24, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
