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raframyesterday at 10:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

When you're riding a rocket that weighs 3.5 million pounds...


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chainingsolidtoday at 2:38 AM

Mass higher up the rocket costs several multiples more mass in propellant and propellant handling lower in the rocket. And the more deltaV you want the higher the multiplication. (If I remember right some weight issues of some kind on the Apollo capsule and or lander required a common bulk head in the first stage to make up the performance loss!)

However cameras probably fall into the variance in astoraunt weight somewhat.

to11mtmyesterday at 10:53 PM

Is that the Rocket or the Craft+Mission payload?

My understanding is it's on the order of 5-10 pounds of rocket juice to get one pound of something to LEO, thus the question.

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