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I can't find anything definitive on that. However looking at Wikipedia, it seems that Starship is supposed to weigh around 500,000 pounds empty, and will have
by btilly 6y ago
I can't find anything definitive on that.
However looking at Wikipedia, it seems that Starship is supposed to weigh around 500,000 pounds empty, and will have 6 raptors. Each raptor can produce between 200,000 to 500,000 pounds of force. So it is theoretically possible to hover on them.
However Elon wants to land on Mars. There a single raptor produces more thrust than is needed to hold up the ship. So you're back in suicide burn territory.
But Starship is supposed to have 6 raptors while SH to have (in current designs) 37. So there is hope that
- mr_toad 6y agoStarships probably won’t be landing on Mars empty. They will have up to 100t (220klb) of cargo, and maybe some extra fuel. Even at 0.4G that should be more than 200klb, they’ll probably need two engines to hover.