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Super Heavy Lift Vehicle Comparison (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
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[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

It's cool to see them all side by side. We really are in a new era of bigass rockets.

Only listing LEO payload numbers is weird when some of these are primarily meant for TLI.

SLS Cargo isn't real and can't hurt me. Yenisei is vaporware. And the payload mass for everything on the right half is unproven.

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Starship can’t even get itself to orbit.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

lots of those rockets have problems, N1 couldn't escape the atmosphere, energiya couldn't escape the USSR's collapse and the sls block 2 won't be able to escape CAD

everything right of sls block 1 hasn't even flown

[-] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Ehhh "can't" vs "decided not to"

[-] becausechemistry@lemy.lol 2 points 3 months ago

Well, my rocket can get 250 tons to LEO. It’s also just a CAD model but like 75% of these are too.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Some barely qualify as that.

this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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