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Falcon 9: 333,450 kg

Dragon: 4,200 kg

Cargo: 905 kg

Ice cream: <5 kg, I'm guessing

Skipping the ice cream would've reduced their total mass by <0.001% or so, at least at launchtime.



Appreciate the response, and think you're probably right. I'd be interested in better numbers, though. It's not the mass of the ice cream that't the problem, but the fuel necessary to get that mass to orbit. I think that's about 10x. And it's the percentage of weight at altitude that matters, since that's where the maneuvering was being done, which brings the weight down by about 90%. That's why I was guessing it was a .1% increase, but don't know for sure.




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