Starship / Super Heavy

Re:Starship / Super Heavy by dxdm on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:25AM (#25550116)

I don't get it, how does that answer the question about the economics of lifting fuel into orbit? Could you elaborate your point?

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Re:Starship / Super Heavy by tjah1087 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @05:57AM (#25550229)

I think they are trying to imply that refueling a starship in orbit is worth it, whatever the cost - it gives a capability we didn't have before.

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Re:Starship / Super Heavy by iso947 on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:49AM (#25558213)

To land the volume of one starship on the moon takes 3 or 4 launches of a fully reusable craft - so just the fuel.

To land that with Apollo would take 100 launches of a single use craft.

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