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If you drop stage 1 in Earth's gravity well instead of Mars's.. yes it does :) Edit: as mikeash points out in the reply, I'm plain wrong. You could use multi-s
by cscheid 13y ago
If you drop stage 1 in Earth's gravity well instead of Mars's.. yes it does :)
Edit: as mikeash points out in the reply, I'm plain wrong. You could use multi-stages to accomodate different gravities when launching Earth-Mars-Earth (2 stage E->M, reusable as standalone second-stage, so single stage M->E).
- mikeash 13y agoA stage built to launch from Earth will surely be severely suboptimal for launching from Mars and vice versa. You'd want to use a first stage that returns to Earth to launch a separate Mars stage if you're planning a return mission.