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They have a Z9 on board for radiation testing, but the D5 is the primary body for imaging on this mission IIRC
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The D5 has been used on the ISS since 2017, including EVAs:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cameras_on_the_Interna...

The ISS now (also?) has Z9s. So they're both generally known-quantities.

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Yeah other folks gave better insight while I was writing my comment, oops...
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When you're riding a rocket that weighs 3.5 million pounds...
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Mass higher up the rocket costs several multiples more mass in propellant and propellant handling lower in the rocket. And the more deltaV you want the higher the multiplication. (If I remember right some weight issues of some kind on the Apollo capsule and or lander required a common bulk head in the first stage to make up the performance loss!)

However cameras probably fall into the variance in astoraunt weight somewhat.

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Is that the Rocket or the Craft+Mission payload?

My understanding is it's on the order of 5-10 pounds of rocket juice to get one pound of something to LEO, thus the question.

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At 3.5 mil pounds that has to be the full rocket. But quick [1]googling is giving an even higher total mass number...

1. https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/sls-5640-sls...

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