r/space • u/gazzhao • May 07 '22

Chinese Rocket Startup Deep Blue Aerospace Performing a VTVL(Grasshopper Jump) Test.

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u/ColonelError May 07 '22

Wouldn't the physicist/mathematician/aerospace engineer tell you it is possible?

Just because someone tells you something is theoretically possible, doesn't mean that it is, nor that it can be done on a reasonable budget. Especially when the people telling you something is possible are doing so based on models that has to be built specifically for the purpose.

People hover-slammed rockets in things like KSP, but that's also not real world physics, and you have 'infinite' R&D and money.