• @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•3 months ago

    Ignoring the onvious fact that Starship has been designed from the beginning for going to Mars and SLS only to go to the Moon…

    Didn’t even the first Starship generation theoretically have a higher payload capacity than the SLS Block 2? And that doesn’t even include the further enhancements to the ship design and Raptor updates since.

    • Tar_AlcaranEnglish
      10•3 months ago

      Didn’t even the first Starship generation theoretically have a higher payload capacity than the SLS Block 2?

      No? SLS block 2 is 130 tons to LEO. Starship “block 1” did “about 50 tons” according to one of Musk’s update videos with SpaceX, promising Starship 2 would do 100 tons.

    • @Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      Its current design is very much not designed to go to mars. Right now its designed as a test bed SSTO, thats it.