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How empty of fuel are spacecraft booster rockets typically?
A recent XKCD What-if article mentions the situation where each additional kilogram of cargo to LEO requires an additional 1. 3 kilograms of fuel, which in turn requires fuel to carry ...
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How much thrust would be needed to turn a hobbyist satellite into a deep space probe?
I was reading the article Weather Balloon Space Probes that says you can put your own satellite at 65,000 ft temporarily.
Is it even remotely possible to raise the probe high enough using ...
