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Lots of it’s weight is in its butt. It will land fine.
by valuearb 6y ago
Lots of it’s weight is in its butt. It will land fine.
- thePunisher 6y agoNot really. The passenger and cargo area are on top and the fuel tanks are at the bottom, which will be mostly empty after landing. IIRC Starship has a cargo capacity of 100 metric tons, all of it topside. The Raptor engines at the bottom will counterbalance this somewhat but it will still be top-heavy.
- valuearb 6y agoThat’s my point. Those Raptors are heavy.
- thePunisher 6y agoNot that heavy. A Raptor weighs 1500kg (1.5 metric tons) so 6 of them makes 9 metric tons while the weight at the top of Starship should be almost 100 tons.
- m4rtink 6y agoIIRC at least in some iterations starship has cargo pots at the bottom inside the "skirt" next to/between the vacuum optimized outer engines. That could help weight distribution & makes the pods easily acessible once you drop them to the surface post landing.