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It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility’s budget.
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thats not what i was saying at all. hitting an orbital object with a projectile is obviously possible. what im saying is that the velocity required to get a projectile in the right place at the right time is at least an order of magnitude less than the velocity required for it to be an orbital projectile.