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i always thought settling propellant would be a big issue for depots but reading through the ULA paper on them they're saying hydrolox only needs 10^-5 G to stay settled. for an ACES-sized stage that would only take 10 rotations per hour so that wouldn't be hard to dock with at all

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ICBMs accelerate faster but their ballistic trajectories would be identical to the ones starship takes, so the difference in travel time wouldn't be more than a few minutes. ICBMs have to stay slower than orbital velocity or else they'd never come down.