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ULA employee "critiques" Starship architecture (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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