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No. 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. Wikip
by sandworm101 5y ago
No. 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