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		acover on July 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX in talks to land and recover Starship rocke... It's about the same as it's low earth orbit payload - 100 tons. Seems harder to shoot down than a cargo plane.

Limeray on July 30, 2024 [–]

Starship would probably follow a ballistic trajectory like intercontinental missiles, so i would suspect you could use the same intercepters.

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