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With 6x more propellant and 4x the power of today’s Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX was selected to design and develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle for a precise, controlled deorbit of the @Space_Station

Looks like there will be 30 draco engines on the back of that thing. Pretty Kerbal!

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  • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    For the strongback, they’ve made changes in the past, like recently running liquid methane up it for Intuitive Machines, so that shouldn’t be too big of a deal.