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Ribby Kerman,

 A suggested improvement: It can be much smaller, cheaper, and more efficient than that.

^ Props to Foxster.

By way of demonstration, I knocked this example together using that technique to follow your mission profile (as best as I can tell from your pics).

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I chopped out a lot of the excess DV but still left plenty of reserve. It weighs 428t at launch and costs $140k. In truth, it could be scaled down a lot further than that by employing more aerobraking and orbital rendezvous.

 

Best,
-Slashy

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