• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    7 months ago

    About half of these vehicles haven’t launched yet, so most of the performance metrics are a calculated theoretical maximum, not the measured mass of an actual payload.

    Also to be fair, Starship did bring that banana to orbital velocity, but the trajectory was deliberately kept suborbital to avoid a potential Long March 5B scenario.

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      It’s not theoratical, because due to issues and changes to starship it turns out it can only bring 35t to low earth orbit. The 100t was the initial plan. Because the T1 never worked so the theoretical mass to orbit is 0 grams.