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Re:Starship is still not understood by ClumsyPilot on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:39AM (#29026631)
"Starship will be able to land 100 of them per flight. Now what?"

Starship cannot deliver 100 tonnes to mars, only to LEO. The rover was not just a ton, it came with a heatshield and other machinery.

Nasa has plenty of other projects, like the SAFE nuclear reactor, and I am sure these teams will be delighted to do something other than track every milligram

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Re:Starship is still not understood by panick21_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:26AM (#29027216)
Starship with refueling is designed for 100 tones to Mars. Actually if you do the math it can be even more.

> The rover was not just a ton, it came with a heatshield and other machinery.

Great and that was thrown away and didn't add anything to the mission. The actual payload is 1 ton.

> Nasa has plenty of other projects, like the SAFE nuclear reactor, and I am sure these teams will be delighted to do something other than track every milligram

If they allow them to not work that way. That the whole point.

I know for a fact the the people who work on Kilopower are really exited for their reactors to potentially power future Mars base and they really want to be allowed to build larger versions.

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