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"We expect that Starship V3 will be able to carry a payload of 100 metric tons, with future generations of Starship being designed to double this payload," it added.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The new version of Starship is designed to carry 100 metric tons to low-Earth orbit, compared with about 23 metric tons for the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 vehicle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Disaster crews removed millions of tons of fire debris from nearly 9,700 properties affected by the Eaton and Palisades fires in roughly eight months.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Majungasaurus, for example, had a heavily built skull and extremely small arms despite weighing only about 1.6 tons, roughly one fifth the weight of T. rex.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

The Dessoug is docking here for a few days so we can take on more coal—550 tons of it.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman