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>>g-mork+(OP)
> Starship will deliver millions of tons to orbit and beyond per year

Excuse my naive physics, but is there a point at which if you take enough mass off of earth and launch it into space, it would have a measurable effect on earth's orbit? (Or if the mass is still tethered to earth via gravity, is there no net effect?)

>>billti+Fv
The Sun masses so much more than the Earth that the Earth’s mass is effectively irrelevant to its orbit.