On this single launch, the main two-stage booster flew for 1,646 km without any significant problems.
Solar-electric propulsion might allow a sample return by launching all elements in a single launch.
A leading goal of the RS-68 program was to produce a simple engine that would be cost-effective when used for a single launch.
That single launch might have been an accident ... or the result of inexperience.
At this range, and given the crappy hardware he seems to have, that ought to do the trick in a single launch.
India sets a world record by sending 10 satellites into orbit in a single launch.
"A single launch can do all that?"
"Not just any single launch," Claudia assured him.
The Babylon space cannon, faced with determined enemies, could have been destroyed after a single launch.
However, that single launch might well have served to dump a load of nerve gas, or a nuclear bomb, onto any capital in the world.
