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▲ ChuckMcM an hour ago

Huge congratulations to the engineering team on this one! It's been quite interesting to watch the evolution of Starship. Had they put another couple of tonnes of propellant and oxidizer on the Booster they might have caught both of them. It is still unclear to me what the final mass fraction to orbit will work out to be, but something that is 100% re-usable is better than something 60% reusable[1].

[1] Estimate of Falcon 9's booster + fairings being 60% (by cost, not by mass) of the launch package.

▲vl an hour ago | parent [-]

It looks like they delivered 50 tons today. Even if it stays this way, it will still reduce price to orbit significantly.