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    It's almost like they're determined to prevent anyone getting a good photo of the worm! It's never in a good angle, haha.
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    Without atmosphere, about 11.1km/s. With atmosphere most conceivable arrows would vaporise before making orbit. Conceivably some sort of tungsten javelin could make it, but it's difficult to quantify the amount of drag.
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    If you look very closely at the right hand side, the worm is still there. You can just make out the tips of the letters.
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    I guess there's a chance plans still might change?
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    Particularly interesting in that video are which nose cones have header tanks.
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    A couple of the recovered fairings. One looking a bit toastier than the other!
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    Did anyone catch the serial number on that Raptor?
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    It's a difficult equation. Without SRBs Vulcan's payload is much reduced and I'm not sure the core stage can withstand side cores plus SRBs. The absolute limit, assuming Centaur Heavy gets to orbit basically full and has a similar dry mass ratio to Centaur III is ~64t to TLI. That's frankly incredible, and isn't that unreasonable given the sustainer architecture. It probably can't take off with that much payload, but there's some seriously impressive EOR missions to be had with an upper stage that powerful...
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    Vulcan Heavy Heavy spotted: And a few words on upper stage endurance:
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    Didn't see any evidence of the worm at any point throughout the stream. And I guess SN5 WDR must have been uneventful...
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    That's a pretty good bullseye on the landing!
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    But they literally have to keep launching from VAFB if they want to bid certain national security missions.
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    Is there a reason this wouldn't be easier out of Vandenberg?
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    Disappointed over the continuous delays, but still progress:
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    Deployment is the riskiest part of the mission and it's already hard enough to do once. It's too fragile to boost deployed. Nobody wants to deploy, undeploy, deploy again if it can possibly be avoided. Also low-mass deployment systems don't necessarily work in reverse.
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    Demo-2 return date possibly:
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    To be completely fair, 34t-37t to TLI (Block 1B) works with a stretched service module if 2 can launch in quick succession. Lunar Orbit Rendezvous with a lander works. But SLS can never fly that often.
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    RIP Starship Mk2:
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    It's a 7 month delay:
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