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They aren't going ten times higher, or launching from Houston. They launch from Florida and California, they are building a launch site in Texas, but its not in
by zardo 11y ago
They aren't going ten times higher, or launching from Houston. They launch from Florida and California, they are building a launch site in Texas, but its not in Houston.
The Falcon 9 1st stage will get over twice as high on some flights. Then height it self isn't a big deal, it's the extra time in free fall speeding up before it hits the atmosphere.
The big difference, is that the Falcon 9 is heading east at 1.7km/s, carrying as much mass as a fully fueled BO rocket when it stages.
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- ceejayoz 11y ago> They aren't going ten times higher, or launching from Houston. They're definitely going 10x higher (significantly more, in fact). The SES-8 launch saw the SpaceX second stage hit 79,130km - 790x higher than Blue Origin's vehicle has hit. https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1s33mz/ses8_deorbiting_the_second_stage/cdtmwqr https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1s33mz/ses8_deorbit...
- zardo 11y agoThe first stage does not go to orbit with the payload.