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Cheaper launch has moved the spacecraft bottleneck. Mass is out, surface area is in.
In the beginning, mass constrained spaceflight. We live at the bottom of a gravity well, and the rocket equation punishes every kilogram we try to lift out of it. Mass […] The post Cheaper launch has moved the spacecraft bottleneck. Mass is out, surface area is in. appeared first on SpaceNews.— SpaceNews
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