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Flipper@feddit.org 2 months agoThe Saturn 5 was able to lift 141t to LEO.
The Space shuttle was reusable.
Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX?
Flipper@feddit.org 2 months agoThe Saturn 5 was able to lift 141t to LEO.
The Space shuttle was reusable.
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Saturn V could lift 141t to LEO…once. Also it’ll be at least another 5 years before we reach a stable max power version of Starship.
For example the Falcon 9 v1.0 first flew in 2010 and the current Block 5 version first flew in 2018 with more than double the LEO capacity when fully expendable.
If they configure Starship as fully expendable it can lift 250t to LEO (per SpaceX, so grain of salt there to be fair).
As for the shuttle, I love it to bits and I’m sad it had to be grounded. It was refurbishable but not really reusable and the massive liquid fuel tank was discarded in each flight.