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Old 16th January 2025 | 13:43
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That was great. Right about that thrust:weight ratio though. Seemed to take an age to clear the tower.
General view is that the TWR was around 1.1/1.2 - and that with a light payload. Probably wouldn’t have survived even a single engine failure at lift off.

Not sure if they deliberately had the engines throttled back to reduce loads on the second stage or had a more generic issue. But seeing as their planned payload is only about 45T, they’ll have to work to generate more thrust in future.
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