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by ceejayoz 249 days ago
This was considered with the orange Space Shuttle fuel tanks; they went almost all the way to orbit anyways.
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I think something would have to de done about the thermal isolation - it looked like to be quite flimsy & I guess a couple months on low orbit with all the UV light and atomic oxygen could easily result in cloud of dark orange stuff slowly departing the tank or any construction built from them.