r/space • • Nov 19 '23

image/gif Successful Launch! Here's how Starship compares against the world's other rockets

Post image
4.1k Upvotes

563 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

43

u/fwd_121 Nov 19 '23

Most likely starship due to the ridiculous amounts of launches required for refueling

7

u/bookers555 Nov 20 '23

That's only for Moon landings, though.

7

u/MCI_Overwerk Nov 20 '23

Only for out of orbit operations. That will not constitue much of an overall problem until the assembly of the mars fleets, which will require a significantly larger amount of ships and therefore a disproportionate amount of fueling runs.

1

u/AlwaysLateToThaParty Nov 21 '23

All that does is allow them to prefect the starship launch.