How economically obsolete is it? Glad you asked. Back-of-the-envelope math shows SLS will have around a 24x higher dollars-per-kg-payload to the moon than SpaceX’s Starship, and that is if you *exclude* taxpayer funded development costs.
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So why is the US spending tens of billions of dollars on a garbage rocket? Oh, that’s why.pic.twitter.com/iFuxYHhnwg
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They have extremely good lobbyists. The best in the business. Meanwhile, the company is destroying billions of dollars of social value.
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It’s only a mistake if don’t realize the US space program now exists only for Congress to shovel money to constituents.
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Well, yeah.
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Boeing is looking bad. And NASA seems to continuely cover for them. I am waiting for NASA to say, 'Its ok that you couldn't fly an empty capsule to the ISS. We'll fly astronauts on it anyway for the next test.' on the flipside 'SpaceX we need to see another parachute test.'
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In the last few years Boeing et al went from merely grifting to actually being incompetent. (Can’t fly an empty capsule to the ISS, can’t build a gun that shoots straight, can’t build a working *variant* of *their own passenger plane*)
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From the article: ''two Starships to take advantage of on-orbit refueling...to take 150 tons to the Moon'' This is not possible To fully fuel a Starship in LEO you'd need 1200 tons of propellants sent to orbit via refueling tankers 1/2
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This operation alone would need up to 12 Starship tanker launches since each one should have a payload capability of ~100 tons This is evidently not remotely practical or cheap Starship will be capable but I doubt we'll ever see it send anywhere close that much mass to TLI 2/2
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