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The Orion spacecraft can't even make it to low Lunar orbit. The SLS block 1 can put 95 tons into low Earth orbit. Compare to the Falcon Heavy, which can put 63
by hwc 4y ago
The Orion spacecraft can't even make it to low Lunar orbit.
The SLS block 1 can put 95 tons into low Earth orbit. Compare to the Falcon Heavy, which can put 63.8 tons into LEO. Is it worth paying over ten times as much for only 1.4 times as much cargo?
- p_l 4y agoThings don't scale linearly with space cargo, nor can you easily work around it by multiple launches. That said, majority of the price tag is probably congressional impact rather than anything else...