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>>8950260
>Stéphane Israël
OY VEY

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I could never dig into watching sports. But I still want bread and games - this is my games.

Do you think the Indians from the jungle come to watch?

>rocket launch
If Earth was round, why wouldn't we just bring the rocket around to the other side and drop it? Balltards BTFO

The acceleration at the beginning seems a lot higher than Falcon 9.

It lost 20Km of altitude. This trajectory is retarded.

>>8950313
thats cuz SRB's do that

If SpaceX wanted to spend like 40 million a launch on SRB's, they could do that too

I don't think its a good thing for optimizing payload to accelerate too much in the lower atmosphere

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>>8950367
But you get a lot faster to max q instead of wasting propellant to just fight with gravity.

Sure the Falcon 9 is more economical anyway.

>>8950408
But then you have higher aerodynamic losses, and your vehicle needs to be stronger, so I think in terms of payload its all a wash

>>8950442
No. At start you are way beyond optimal speed. After you reach max Q, you throttle down. That's one good reason to use strap-on boosters.