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0 pointsathrowaway3z11d ago0 comments

I think calling solar a little more performant is underselling it. Once you have LEO getting to a better orbit costs relatively little. Getting from LEO to the moon is only like 30% more than getting from ground to LEO.

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curiousObject11d ago

True, but lifting the fuel to power that “small” orbital boost is unintuitively expensive

(Refer to the tyranny of the “Rocket Equation”)

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