My Blade rocket with its high aspect ratio wing design has rectangular box shaped payload bay. Thanks to its hexagonal inner structure. This allows almost 100% space allocation for the orbital payload. Current cylindrical payload bays with conical nose have considerable volumetric loss. On the other hand, there is a trend of flat satellites thanks to Starlink pioneering the way. My rocket would provide a perfect fit for such satellites.
I had written about standardization of satellites on my earlier articles. Now I want to emphasize it further. The rockets, like the buildings are designed from top to bottom. When we have standardized dimensions of satellites, it would give the rocket designer a clear path to design their rockets. Multibillion-dollar rocket design process is by no means standardized and is very inefficient. What enabled the humanity to rapidly increase the global trade and its efficiency was the standardization of the cargo, the shipping containers. Once the payload was clearly defined, companies designed trucks, semi-trucks, trains and the ships accordingly. The system was very efficient.
Flattening the satellites opened up the way for such standardization. Standardized measures should be defined for such satellites clearly defining the height, width and length. Multiples of these dimensions would be the defining measure for the satellite designers and would base their design on these restrictions. The rocket designers start designing their rockets based on these standardized payloads.
I recommend the nations who are investing on the space race but lacking behind the leader should unite and define such standards to improve their efficiency to be able to properly compete.
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