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ULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it true that starship will have less payload weight to LEO than all other SpaceX rockets?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so.

Even Starship v1 (which have already ceased production) had an estimated payload to LEO comparable to a reusable Falcon Heavy (~50 tonnes). Starship v2 (scheduled to launch in January) has a projected payload to LEO around 100 tonnes, and v3 will be higher still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Okay then why did they only launch a banana as cargo? I thought the EV was a standard test payload