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>>15069861
i imagine it probably would've worked out to be about the same 30ish tons buran could do. granted you are saving a lot more useful shit compared to the reuseable fairing and oms that was buran

>>15069869
yeah i wonder that too. it looks like it had better surface area to mass than shuttle/buran so maybe they could've just used ablative or metallic tps instead of dealing with even more silica tiles. buran at least had a better mounting system yeah?

>>15069882
neat, i always wondered what that weird interstage was. i wonder if that actually saved any mass on tps after you add in the extra structure and mechanism. maybe it was just for aerodynamics

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