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 (DIR) Post #B5StBYPULTYtDTl95k by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
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       Thinking a bit about the artemis ii mission profile... The core put them on a super elongated suborbital trajectory, but that was by choice to not leave the core stage in LEO afaik.Does that mean with different trajectory parameters and if you provided an alternative deorbit mechanism, SLS is SSTO capable? Is it still technically SSTO if you drop SRBs but the core goes the whole way?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5StxbpMwVKjiPmNWK by multioculate@mastodon.social
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       @azonenberg the SRBs are at least recoverable so I feel like the answer should be yes
       
 (DIR) Post #B5SuHWC3bEhe27svCq by azonenberg@ioc.exchange
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       @multioculate yeah I'm not sure why they didn't recover them like the shuttle ones
       
 (DIR) Post #B5T0bhgx9rxrDALQdE by AMS@infosec.exchange
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       @azonenberg @multioculate I'm pretty sure trashing the remains of the shuttle program was a critical SLS program requirement.