IT House March 12 news, some netizens on the push sent a picture and @ Musk, compared the carrying capacity of several more famous rockets in low-Earth orbit, Musk then said that his starship in a one-time mode (normally to retain fuel to land on the ground for recovery) under the maximum payload of up to 250 ~ 300 tons.
Musk said: "The optimized, fully reusable starship has the same reference orbit payload as Saturn V with 150 tons (Saturn V 140 tons)." In consumption mode, the payload of the starship can reach 250 tons to 300 tons. ”
His words caused a heated discussion on reddit, after all, saturn v is completely expendable, and SpaceX takes the recyclable route, which is actually stronger than saturn v, and can even achieve twice its performance if not recycled. In this regard, it is undoubtedly an amazing performance. (Of course, Saturn V itself wasn't designed for low-Earth orbit, so it's a bit unfair to compare that.)
IT House is aware that the Saturn V carrier rocket, also translated as Saturn V, is a carrier rocket used by NASA in the Apollo program and Skylab's two space programs, a manned multi-stage throwable liquid fuel rocket that played an important role in the space mission from 1967 to 1972.
Saturn 5 has held the world record for the largest launch capacity rocket since its first flight in 1967, and is also 7 times the carrying capacity of the second strongest American rocket, Saturn 1 B, and the Soviet Union's strongest rocket, Proton-K, at the same time, and 2 times the capacity of the strongest rocket heavy Falcon of the 21st century.
Although NASA has envisioned larger rockets (such as the Nova rocket), saturn 5 is the largest rocket in history, reaching 110.6 meters and is the tallest and heaviest launch vehicle ever used, with major contractors including Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM.
