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Dave O'Neill dave @ NOSPAM atomicrazor . com wrote:
A Proton/Ariane5/etc... size launcher can soft land around 6,000kg
of cargo on the surface at a reasonable cost for supply purposes.
Six tons?
Could you document that and/or provide numbers?

Checking on The Encylopedia, the last sample return mission massed 5,800kg's
and was launched using the Proton.

Almost certainly that is launch mass, not landed mass, let alone landed
*cargo* mass.
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In article ,
Dave O'Neill dave @ NOSPAM atomicrazor . com wrote:
A Proton/Ariane5/etc... size launcher can soft land around 6,000kg
of cargo on the surface at a reasonable cost for supply purposes.
Six tons?
Could you document that and/or provide numbers?

Checking on The Encylopedia, the last sample return mission massed
5,800kg's
and was launched using the Proton.

Almost certainly that is launch mass, not landed mass, let alone landed
*cargo* mass.

My fault, the lander mass at launch was 5,800kg's, which obviously gives a
payload to surface significantly lower, but still enough for a reasonable
supply run.

Dave