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Long duration propellant stability in Starship
- PaulHoule 2y agoHe's quoting a 7 ton chiller for a spacecraft with a 100 ton payload, so it's a lot. I was thinking the other day that the once-every-two-years launch window for Mars could get rather crowded, particularly considering you'd have to launch 10-20 Starships to get one to Mars. I'd think you could extend that launch window for cargo by stacking Starships in an HEO (highly elliptical orbit) which means they'd spend another 6 months - 1 year in a holding pattern needing to be chilled.