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Your link says a 40' container weighs 20,000kg. The Hindenburg alone could lift 232,000kg [1]. Bouyant needs to go bigger. [1] https://erik-engheim.medium.com
by jodrellblank 5y ago
Your link says a 40' container weighs 20,000kg. The Hindenburg alone could lift 232,000kg [1].
Bouyant needs to go bigger.
[1] https://erik-engheim.medium.com/calculating-lifting-capacity-of-airships-48df5cd7d147 https://erik-engheim.medium.com/calculating-lifting-capacity...
- sandworm101 5y agoNo. It had 232 tons of bouyancy. Most of that was taken up by its own mass. The amount it could lift, its payload, was a tiny fraction of that amount. Wikipedia says it could lift aprox 10,000kg. Roughly the 5% payload ratio of a typical space launch today.
- midasuni 5y agoA FH can put 63,000kg to low Earth orbit. A delta 4 heavy 28,000. Not sure where your 200,000kg “typical” comes from, even Saturn V, SLS and Starship aren’t 200t.
- sandworm101 5y agoRatio. Payload to orbit is about 5% of launch mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_fraction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_fraction