{"id":15187169,"date":"2026-06-30T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/study-argues-bigger-launch-vehicles-may-not-always-be-better\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:44:38","slug":"study-argues-bigger-launch-vehicles-may-not-always-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/study-argues-bigger-launch-vehicles-may-not-always-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Study argues bigger launch vehicles may not always be better"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spacenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/newglenn9x4.jpeg?fit=1024%2C646&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"New Glenn 9x4\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>As SpaceX and others pursue the development of very large launch vehicles, a new study suggests that there may be such a thing as a rocket that is too large.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/study-argues-bigger-launch-vehicles-may-not-always-be-better\/\">Study argues bigger launch vehicles may not always be better<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\">SpaceNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/study-argues-bigger-launch-vehicles-may-not-always-be-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SpaceNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As SpaceX and others pursue the development of very large launch vehicles, a new study suggests that there may be such a thing as a rocket that is too large.<br \/>\nThe post Study argues bigger launch vehicles may not always be\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15187171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15187169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4.jpg",1024,646,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-620x391.jpg",620,391,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-768x485.jpg",768,485,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-940x593.jpg",940,593,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4.jpg",1024,646,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4.jpg",1024,646,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-998x646.jpg",998,646,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4.jpg",1024,646,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15187169-newglenn9x4-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All News<\/a>","tag_info":"All News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15187169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15187170,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187169\/revisions\/15187170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15187171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15187169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15187169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15187169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}