On 10/7/2013 10:04 PM, Ben Brockert wrote:
This flight was unusual in how much propellant they had to vent. The payload was about 600kg total but the rocket is rated for 13150kg to LEO. Even with the performance hits of first stage relight and going to polar orbit, the upper stage still had literal tons of propellant on it.
Point taken, though don't you mean geosync (or GTO) instead of polar orbit?
