/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12687446
Falcon Heavy also got the cargo delivery contract for Gateway resupply missions assuming any crew ever gets out there. The payload will be a special Bad Dragon XL, which iirc is an elongated version of the Dragon 1.x inside a fairing. Now we just need Crew Starship or a Crew Dreamchaser on Vulcan Chubby up there and we can drop SLS in the fucking trash for the entire Artemis architecture.

>>12687447
They'd also be really great for Venus missions since your entire mission profile aside from brief dips behind a planet shadow is in regions of >=1366W/m^2 solar flux so you can leave the nukes at home and go full SEP / chemical, even with an obnoxious 30 meter ~6kN sail.