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| Sep 1, 2019 at 2:19 | comment | added | prl | Oh, duh, I knew that. Thanks. | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 23:44 | comment | added | Vikki | @prl: No, all three were launched via Shuttle-IUS in the late 1980s/early 1990s. | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 23:22 | comment | added | prl | Regarding footnote 5, didn’t those potential Shuttle-Centaur payloads end up on Centaur anyway, meaning that they aren’t an addition to those already counted in footnote 4? | |
| Jul 19, 2019 at 22:29 | comment | added | Vikki | @MagicOctopusUrn: I was more thinking of exchanging lower stages for lower stages and upper stages for upper stages, not lower for upper or upper for lower; alternatively, rockets with different lower stages sharing a common upper stage, or rockets with the same lower stage using different upper stages. | |
| Jul 19, 2019 at 22:26 | comment | added | Magic Octopus Urn | Also the shape of the nozzles and the expansion of the fuel account for a lot of the efficiency design. | |
| Jul 7, 2019 at 4:25 | vote | accept | Vikki | ||
| Jul 6, 2019 at 7:57 | answer | added | Hobbes | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1147158297360961537 | ||
| Jul 5, 2019 at 5:11 | comment | added | RonJohn | Upper stages need to be smaller than the lower stages. | |
| Jul 5, 2019 at 2:23 | history | asked | Vikki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |