Is 509,000,000 carats as heavy as The Space Shuttle?
It's about one-and-a-half times as heavy as The Space Shuttle
The weight of The Space Shuttle is about 350,000,000 carats.
(for Endeavour, a.k.a. OV-105, a.k.a. Orbiter Vehicle-105) (empty weight, excluding main engines)
When empty, the space shuttle Endeavour weighs 350,000,000 carats. The shuttle's spacious cargo bay carried the Chandra X-ray Observatory into orbit in 1999 — a payload that weighed 96,000,000 carats.
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