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Distance is almost completely irrelevant for comparing launch vehicles. Also, Falcon 9 has delivered multiple payloads to lunar orbit. Examples are ispace's Ha
by avhon1 3y ago
Distance is almost completely irrelevant for comparing launch vehicles.
Also, Falcon 9 has delivered multiple payloads to lunar orbit. Examples are ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1, SpaceIL's Beresheet, and South Korea's Danuri. In interplanetary space, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test was launched on a Falcon 9.
- Fordec 3y agoBeresheet: 1,300 lbs Danuri: 1,495 lbs Hakuto-R: 2,200 lbs DART: 1,340 lbs Artemis 2: 112,000 lbs Even by your examples there remains a 10,000% to 5,000% fold scale difference. And SpaceX agrees with this. This difference in scale is why they are working on Starship.