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This booster is much, much larger than the Falcon 9 first stages that land on barges. It's ~70 metres high, versus ~40 metres for the Falcon 9 first stage, and
by _djo_ 2y ago
This booster is much, much larger than the Falcon 9 first stages that land on barges. It's ~70 metres high, versus ~40 metres for the Falcon 9 first stage, and weighs about 275 000 kg compared to the ~20 000 kg of the Falcon 9 first stage.
In short, it would require such huge and heavy landing legs and landing barges that it probably wouldn't be feasible.
- mock-possum 2y agoHoly shit I didn’t realize it’s an order of magnitude heavier
- db48x 2y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/exvu55/size_comparison/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/exvu55/size_comparis... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-size-of-the-worlds-rockets-past-and-present/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-size-of-the-w...
- stetrain 2y agoFYI that first link is showing a previous, larger, concept iteration of Starship (then known as ITS) which would have had a 12m diameter, versus the 9m version that SpaceX ended up building. The second link seems to show a version of Starship that's relatively up-to-date.
- db48x 2y agoYup. Someone should make a new graphic.
- migueloller 2y agoThe square-cube law strikes again! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law