Progressive Rocket

Yesterday I read about progressive rock and listened to “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Then, I decided to write this article. Progressive rock style emerged from psychedelic bands who abandoned standard rock traditions in favor of instrumental and compositional techniques more commonly associated with jazz, folk, or classical music, while retaining the instrumentation typical of rock music. A landmark work of British psychedelia, Sgt. Pepper is considered one of the first art rock LPs and a progenitor to progressive rock.

That’s what we need to do with our rocket designs, abandoning standard rocket design and add more innovation to every piece of the design. Reusability is one good example. However, it is a single, we need an album. For example, in my previous articles I had proposed wings for the first stage, cascaded propellant tanks for liquid methane and oxygen, high bypass nozzle for the first stage and many more.

Today’s advanced simulation technologies allow radical designs to be tested with minimal cost. AI can be used to perfect the details as well. We need to break through from the traditional approaches to achieve our ambitious space exploration goals.