92
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To inject a source, there's 395,700 kg total propellant on the first stage, and a burn time of 162 seconds. That gives about 2,442.6 kg/second, and assuming it's fuel balanced it comes out to something like 700 liters of RP-1 per second. Could OP have been using thousands of gallons instead, by accident?

It's still a lot, though, while a space elevator is just a really tall elevator, or alternatively an EV that goes up and down.

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
92 points (97.9% liked)

Futurology

1735 readers
82 users here now

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS