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Hmm...TPS as fairing/shroud? Above cluster tankage-slides down on rails? All dry by then...petals...all tech inward facing. TPS is the grid fin.

Who says a payload has to go up top. Perhaps an OTRAG with the rods hidden within the cluster. They would all be the same length

Cluster tankage was similar…Titan III lift wise, yes.

Sprague's Liberty and this are about all that is left of pressure-fed rockets...except the water-"rocket" of ARCA. Pressure-feds might do better with a cluster approach. Narrow cores with higher strength perhaps?

A cluster tank design with its own tip-jets and perhaps lighter landing gear-or boost-back with heavy gear due to hover-slams...with Falcon using more kerosene for that-with LOX than tip-jets: a wash?

What about cluster tankage?--mass hog though it may be --it is harder to break many arrows than one--having telescoping legs between the tankage wouldn't stove in the sides of a booster core. Each core might be assigned its own engine, transported in segments, then perhaps assembled on a pad.

I saw a still image at another site where there was a gap in the curtain of fire...meaning the center cluster was off and the two shut down directly opposite each other-center of frame? {The still from Behind the Black.} Ah-looks like a pad leg from the...

Now, there was this thing called Delta 3 that was a gap filler. Ugly bird. Now, SpaceX was looking at a five core Falcon super heavy. Maybe that or a cluster version could be topped with a methalox 'centaur' with only one vac Raptor..to finish Starlink and buy time?

...there was this idea that no one “needed” anything more than a rocket that could put 20 tons up there. A failure of vision. At any rate, here is an article on potential problems in tankage draining: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35553 Here is where cluster tankage might have advantages?

...on Phil Bono's very larger saucer HLLV....I could see it between the two vertical fins...perhaps with Big Onion type water landings....except of a skimming sort. I like the idea of very wide, flat payloads that could offer....even wider than that afforded by OTRAG's largest cluster concept.

...Now…with modern chemistry, could you transition the propellant into a shaped charge…Sprint type explosive fuel thickening down the length into a warhead proper…ever faster acceleration…less electronics…just a molten, autophage jet of metal that could be cluster fired at lower costs.

...documents: View: https://imgur.com/gallery/galick-gun-dWtac Bil Nye News https://phys.org/news/2026-01-earliest-hottest-galaxy-cluster-gas.html https://www.universetoday.com/articles/earth-like-planets-need-a-cosmic-ray-bath...

I always thought a Saturn IB design would lend itself to boostback. The legs could then be *between* tanks..slide past them--not stove them in. A wide fairing could be had, with skirts opening up like a shuttlecock... maybe even chutes. Everyone wants a telephone pole.

It would allow wider booster cores to still be rail/road transportable. In fact, you see more and more SPMTs (self propelled modular transporters) on the road. Less solid augmentation and more OTRAG. Single core not enough--attach a rocket module with this propellant and that engine. Even...

Perhaps the technology can be looked at for smaller booster recovery. Perhaps a return to cluster tankage could allow some pre-deployed elements in the hollows between tanks, the wing on the surface to smooth out airflow. I am surprised that parachutes work as well as they do. I remember...

...imitate the processes in the brain in detail and can solve challenging cognitive tasks. The program was developed by a research team at the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" at the University of Tübingen. The software thus forms the basis for a new...

...Astronomy https://phys.org/news/2026-01-south-pole-telescope-energetic-stellar.html https://phys.org/news/2026-01-vast-cluster-ancient-galaxies-rewrite.html https://phys.org/news/2026-01-hubble-tension-primordial-magnetic-fields.html...

...Sisters https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/science/astronomy-stars-pleiades.html https://phys.org/news/2025-11-pleiades-star-cluster-revealed-vast.html https://phys.org/news/2025-11-superheated-star-factory-early-universe.html Crater...

...flank-and the lower pair scissored up in the "12:00' position-also like clock hands. It would look like a spindly biplane on return...engine cluster where the radial goes. Nose of rocket hitched to truck with wings folded-B-52 bogie has wheel and seat attached so as to be steered like long...

...In between? Vortices spinning off smokers--and micelles https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01808123 A micelle is a "spherical cluster of amphiphilic molecules (like soap) that self-assemble in a liquid, forming a colloidal suspension." I think cells came before DNA. It doesn't...