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The different payload masses are most likely for different grades of reusability: all cores expendable, center core expendable + boosters reusable, fully reusab
by adwn 11y ago
The different payload masses are most likely for different grades of reusability: all cores expendable, center core expendable + boosters reusable, fully reusable.
Hard to tell for sure, because SpaceX has, to the best of my knowledge, never provided details regarding which Falcon Heavy configuration delivers the 6.4 mT to GTO.*
* probably a 1800 m/s to GSO, 26° inclination orbit
- mrfusion 11y agoSo it's listing the min and max masses to GTO for Falcon Heavy? But why wouldn't they list the same thing for regular Falcon? Can't you also choose if that is reusable or not?
- adwn 11y agoThe concensus among several people on the nasaspaceflight.com forum who simulated the numbers, is that 13 mT is already the estimated capability of the reusable F9 v1.1; the full capability of the expendable configuration is approx. 16 mT to LEO.
- anovikov 11y agoWhat will the full capability of expandable v1.2 be then?