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Maybe to send fuel in orbit along several weeks or months instead of with one giant rocket. Less efficient but easier.
by pmontra 4y ago
Maybe to send fuel in orbit along several weeks or months instead of with one giant rocket. Less efficient but easier.
- messe 4y ago> Maybe to send fuel in orbit along several weeks or months instead of with one giant rocket. Less efficient but easier. Unless you're getting fuel from the moon, the sensible way to do that is to do your refueling in LEO. Otherwise your tankers of fuel are going to need to refuel in LEO to even get to the lunar gateway in the first place. That's in fact Starship's architecture: It's going to launch on a SuperHeavy booster, and then refuel in Low Earth Orbit, utilising tanker-variants of Starship.
- panick21_ 4y agoYou could do that by directly going to the moon. No matter how you look at it, it makes no sense.