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All those reentry tiles, reentry & burn back fuel, and header tanks add up to a lot of launch weight that wouldn't be needed in an expendable mission profile.
by adastra22 2y ago
All those reentry tiles, reentry & burn back fuel, and header tanks add up to a lot of launch weight that wouldn't be needed in an expendable mission profile.
- tsimionescu 2y agoSure, but that's not what this is about. The quoted capacity of Starship is supposed to be for a fully rapidly reusable Starship So the question remains: is the current Starship design capable of carrying a commercial payload to at least LEO, and then come back safely down as they demonstrated?
- adastra22 2y agoI don't see how that is relevant? Surely you'd be comparing against other launch vehicles, which are all expendable.