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SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
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somenameforme
· 2026-11-15 Sun 02:06 UTC ·
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Due to the nature of spaceflight, payload tends to be around 1-3% of total mass. You don't tend to max payload during testing for stuff you expect to have a reasonable chance of going boom.