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ceejayoz 68 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Starship's Eighth Flight Test

I'm pretty sure he's talking about Starship, not Falcon 9. Starship doesn't launch from Vandenberg; neither Starship launch site has seals present.

Propellant mass 441,800 lbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy) to 906,000 lbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy) in the respective first stages.

throwawaymaths 68 days ago [–]

falcon 9 heavy has never launched from vandenburg.

ceejayoz 68 days ago | [–]

But it will.

https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/A...

(Starship hasn’t, either.)

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