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I don't see GTO mentioned in this paper. I know the falcon 9 has GTO specs; is the theory that you won't want to put something that large in GEO?


Haha, nooooo. GEO will actually probably be the major market for the Falcon Heavy. I suspect specs weren't in there due to the fact that they would be heavily dependent on the performance of the upper stage, which I think is still being developed. I think the current estimate of GTO capacity for Falcon Heavy is 19,500kg.

Which ironically would make the Falcon Heavy the best choice for launching a lot of the most secretive NRO payloads (due to bloated satellite size). For servicing the commercial satellite market it's likely that a lot of launches would be 2 or 3 comm-sats at once.




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