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Not arguing for more dedicated structure. Suggesting that items that may have a use at the destination may be used to help structurally. Wasn't thinking about a pressurizable structure, just a bit of support from items that are eventually payload.
Were you think of truss elements that could be reassembled for other uses?
I'm prejudiced toward thinking about this as a nuke. Odds are that a nuke dumps all of its payload, which makes arrangements for its own arrival at wherever it's going. That makes it unlikely that anything gets reused other than the nuke, which wants to be as light as possible, since it probably has to do a pure braking burn if it's to be captured.
Second most likely is a hydrolox architecture that has to aerocapture the bejeezus out of itself, and you're not recycling any odds and ends from that, either.
There are obviously other architectures, but let's keep it to the irreducible minimum: How light can we get away with for a departure burn?
Preview of SSLV-D2, plus detailed explanations of the anomaly in SSLV-D1
https://www.isro.gov.in/mission_SSLV_D1_summary_D2.html
