So being wasteful is part of the game?

[WolfHound]

If you watch the space age trailer on steam you'll see a rocket taking a satellite up to dock with a space platform. The satellite is tiny compared to the rocket and as soon as the rocket releases the satellite the entire body of the rocket just falls away.

I mean holy ♥♥♥♥ thats a tone of very expensive hardware just tossed out into deep space! Why bother harvesting asteroids when you can just harvest old rocket engines? Sometimes the devs make very inane decisions.

[Maltsi]

Thats how it works in real life too? Except some reusable booster rockets that space x now has, but i highly doubt that is priority for a single engineer

[jonniejamaica]

yes

[Mel Gibson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistage_rocket

[jagholin]

first rocket stages don't even reach orbit, they just fall back to Earth not far from the launch site.

[WolfHound]

Originally posted by jagholin:

first rocket stages don't even reach orbit, they just fall back to Earth not far from the launch site.

In game?

[Strategic Sage]

It's no different in that sense than 1.0. You built the rocket for the purpose of getting a satellite into orbit to phone home. The rest of that one was wasted too.

[jagholin]

Originally posted by WolfHound:

Originally posted by jagholin:

first rocket stages don't even reach orbit, they just fall back to Earth not far from the launch site.

In game?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1zmC39vU85E

[cardzy]

Someone has no life if THIS is what concerns you. smh

[Delita]

Moving from a planet into orbit requires alot of thrust and fuel so you need a large rocket to do it. Once youre in space you need alot less thrust and fuel is dependent on distance you have to go but you generally need less. So its typical to shed off the majority of the rocket once in orbit.

[Myyrä]

Originally posted by WolfHound:

If you watch the space age trailer on steam you'll see a rocket taking a satellite up to dock with a space platform. The satellite is tiny compared to the rocket and as soon as the rocket releases the satellite the entire body of the rocket just falls away.

I mean holy ♥♥♥♥ thats a tone of very expensive hardware just tossed out into deep space! Why bother harvesting asteroids when you can just harvest old rocket engines? Sometimes the devs make very inane decisions.

You need multiple detachable stages of rockets in order to achieve escape velocity, and the reason we use detachable stages is that we wouldn't have to use even more fuel, once the detachable rockets have spent their fuel, we detach them in order to lose mass, less mass = less fuel required in order to get them to space, simple as that.

[WolfHound]

Originally posted by cardzy:

Someone has no life if THIS is what concerns you. smh

..and you would know all about having no life...

[WolfHound]

Originally posted by Myyrä:

Originally posted by WolfHound:

If you watch the space age trailer on steam you'll see a rocket taking a satellite up to dock with a space platform. The satellite is tiny compared to the rocket and as soon as the rocket releases the satellite the entire body of the rocket just falls away.

I mean holy ♥♥♥♥ thats a tone of very expensive hardware just tossed out into deep space! Why bother harvesting asteroids when you can just harvest old rocket engines? Sometimes the devs make very inane decisions.

You need multiple detachable stages of rockets in order to achieve escape velocity, and the reason we use detachable stages is that we wouldn't have to use even more fuel, once the detachable rockets have spent their fuel, we detach them in order to lose mass, less mass = less fuel required in order to get them to space, simple as that.

I guess I thought we could use reusable rockets.

[ron]

Elon is working on it...

[Myyrä]

Originally posted by WolfHound:

Originally posted by Myyrä:

You need multiple detachable stages of rockets in order to achieve escape velocity, and the reason we use detachable stages is that we wouldn't have to use even more fuel, once the detachable rockets have spent their fuel, we detach them in order to lose mass, less mass = less fuel required in order to get them to space, simple as that.

I guess I thought we could use reusable rockets.

Reusable rockets are a pipedream, there's a reason why NASA and other space agencies ditched the idea some 30-40 years ago, they are far more expensive and require extensive repairs and inspections before being able to be reused safely.
Even with reusable rockets you'd still have to use them as secondary stage rockets, which you'd need to recover or have them land somewhere, like SpaceX is trying but is ultimately a fools errand and a bottomless sink of tax payer money because of government subsidies that Elon hates.

[baerra]

Well, Factorio is quite a realistic game not all that different from real life. I guess what I'm trying to say is you're absolutely right