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Does anyone know how they planned to solve what was bound to be monumental combustion instability issues with the Sea Dragon's fuckhuge first stage engine?

>>11251360
It's not just an Apollo capsule. It's on top of a cargo fairing (like some of the Jupiter rocket concepts). But the size difference is pretty funny though.

>>8478800
oh, they've thought about it before

nobody has done it because the bigger a rocket is, the more expensive it is to build and test it. Plus no normal missions require that much oomph.

>>8322835
>SLS will launch in mid to late 2018
for block 1, with cubesats (LOL). First launch of anything approaching the targeted performance is three years later in 2021!

>cheaper than every rocket on a kg to orbit
except nobody needs 100 tons to orbit.

By that metric, the cheapest launch system ever designed was the Sea Dragon. 500 tons to orbit, baby! I wonder why nobody ever built it?

I don't care if FH gets delayed forever, since only the NRO needs that class of heavy payload.

>>7994299
pshaw. You call THAT a big rocket?!

>>6551440
you think that's big? I'm sad no shipbuilder ever attempted the Sea Dragon. 175m from stem to stern, taking 500 tons to orbit.