Lets assume that is the case.
That is where they should spend their cash to produce something of real value that can be reused. Simulation close to perfection is the end game. Not sending something chunky into space.
That is where they should spend their cash to produce something of real value that can be reused. Simulation close to perfection is the end game. Not sending something chunky into space.
Yeah, they were doing high fidelity high performance computational fluid dynamics simulations and aerodynamic simulations by 2015.
So I think they've done the sims, and now they're doing it in real life.
Some day we'll have good enough models for air flows in all necessary modes and good enough computers to run those models; we aren't there yet. Testing is still required.