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

submitted 22 hours ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works

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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours 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.

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 2 hours ago

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