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		pfdietz on Oct 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video... To put this in perspective: at 150t/launch, if a launch is $1M, then for the cost of an SLS launch (at least $2B) Starship could launch 300,000 tons, about the mass of three Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carriers.

Waterluvian on Oct 13, 2024 [–]

We could use a few of those in orbit.

mensetmanusman on Oct 13, 2024 | [–]

America funding the literal eye of Sauron 2.0

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