Andrew Case wrote:
There's an argument to be made against moving it based on the fact that that's slack time for all of the ground crew except the guy driving the transporter,I) Why does the transporter need a driver? It seems to me that some current-day robotic technologies would do a decent job of seeking a transponder on the ship, aligning with it precisely based on marking on the ship, lift it, and haul it back to the launch stand/servicing area, again placing it precisely on the mark.
II) Why does this need to be slack time for the ground crew? They could be a) performing an inspection of the ship while in transit, b) prepping the service area/launch stand, or c) servicing another ship in the next launch platform down the launch field.
but it's not clear that you can't make that time up by improved efficiency once you get to the launch stand (since now everything is in a known and well defined position relative to everything else).
......Andrew
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