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Paul Stone's avatar

So, you’re telling me there’s a chance. 😉

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John Karas's avatar

To pile on… also needs: zero boil off of propellants during the 8-10 months of cruise and landing or there won’t be enough propellants left to land, which along with on orbit propellant transfer has never been demonstrated at scale and then there’s the small item of coming

back, even IF you stick the landing. If Ship lands empty, it takes approximately 700 MT of propellant to get off the surface and to TEI. Needs C and O2 from the atmosphere, and H2O from water ice… no problem, the math on this for power, other equipment on the surface and duration required is problematic.

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