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Three fifths the thrust of a Saturn V, and twice the thrust of any current rocket.

The Saturn V was just... wow.

17 posted on 04/11/2019 11:12:17 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)

18 posted on 04/11/2019 11:13:25 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)

Those are some pretty amazing statistics.

Maybe you can find a good source to post it - but I saw that the Israeli moon lander started on it’s way down to landing, but then they lost telemetry I think, and it crashed. It made it to about 9 miles up before losing contact.

It took some photos, and a “selfie” on it’s way down. It was also a private venture, went up on an earlier Musk launch. Lots of volunteer work put into it even.

Article with photos:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6911331/Israel-hopes-just-fourth-nation-land-moon-later-today.html

19 posted on 04/11/2019 11:21:17 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)

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