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Once launch is cheap, the engineering effort spacecraft designers spend shaving off mass buys nothing.

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  1. Casey Handmer

    Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    A dollar spent on mass optimization no longer buys a dollar saved on launch cost.

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