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Huh? SpaceX's Starship is designed to go to Mars.

by thematrixturtle 4y ago

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Anybody can design anything to go anywhere. Starship doesn't exist.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago
  Starship exists as much as SLS does.
- Isinlor 4y ago
  To me it looks very real: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rvmKpUhryN6qQmNffvqnXH-970-80.jpg.webp https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rvmKpUhryN6qQmNffvqnXH-970...
djmips 4y ago
"Elon Musk’s SpaceX, for instance, has shown it is possible to build reusable rockets that can send astronauts and cargo into space for around $50m per launch, far less than the projected $2bn (or more) for each ride aboard the sls" - that $50m is not Starship pricing that's the more run-of-the-mill Falcon 9.
croes 4y ago
And Teslas are designed to drive autonomous
- deleted 4y ago
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p_l 4y ago
It's... not? There are no allowances in Starship design for long range trip. It could be used to kickstart building a vessel that could do it, by being useful launch vehicle to ship materials, but that's it.
- Isinlor 4y ago
  Starship is literally contracted by NASA to land people on the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
  - arethuza 4y ago
    It appears to be designed to go from lunar orbit to the surface - not to take people to lunar orbit? Edit: I was referring to the Starship HLS variant linked to
    - Isinlor 4y ago
      This is lunar lander variant. They just adopted Starship to the NASA requirements. Starship is first and foremost designed to deliver people and/or 100T of cargo to Mars.
    - deepdriver 4y ago
      In theory it can do both. However, it is not yet crew-certified.
      - Isinlor 4y ago
        SpaceX builds Mars Starship in their private capacity, so they don't have to certify it with NASA. It most likely never will be according to criteria from commercial crew program, because it does not have and will not have an escape system.
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  - p_l 4y ago
    I knew about lunar use, and distances for lunar trip are much shorter than distances for Martian one. Somehow I forgot that Musk claims they are going to Mars in Starship - thought it was too small for that, but a good chance of kickstarting the kind of industry you need to build one to take to Mars and back.

Huh? SpaceX's Starship is designed to go to Mars.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago

Anybody can design anything to go anywhere. Starship doesn't exist.

throwawaylinux 4y ago
Starship exists as much as SLS does.
Isinlor 4y ago
To me it looks very real: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rvmKpUhryN6qQmNffvqnXH-970-80.jpg.webp https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rvmKpUhryN6qQmNffvqnXH-970...

djmips 4y ago

"Elon Musk’s SpaceX, for instance, has shown it is possible to build reusable rockets that can send astronauts and cargo into space for around $50m per launch, far less than the projected $2bn (or more) for each ride aboard the sls" - that $50m is not Starship pricing that's the more run-of-the-mill Falcon 9.

croes 4y ago

And Teslas are designed to drive autonomous

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p_l 4y ago

It's... not? There are no allowances in Starship design for long range trip. It could be used to kickstart building a vessel that could do it, by being useful launch vehicle to ship materials, but that's it.

Isinlor 4y ago
Starship is literally contracted by NASA to land people on the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
- arethuza 4y ago
  It appears to be designed to go from lunar orbit to the surface - not to take people to lunar orbit? Edit: I was referring to the Starship HLS variant linked to
  - Isinlor 4y ago
    This is lunar lander variant. They just adopted Starship to the NASA requirements. Starship is first and foremost designed to deliver people and/or 100T of cargo to Mars.
  - deepdriver 4y ago
    In theory it can do both. However, it is not yet crew-certified.
    - Isinlor 4y ago
      SpaceX builds Mars Starship in their private capacity, so they don't have to certify it with NASA. It most likely never will be according to criteria from commercial crew program, because it does not have and will not have an escape system.
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- p_l 4y ago
  I knew about lunar use, and distances for lunar trip are much shorter than distances for Martian one. Somehow I forgot that Musk claims they are going to Mars in Starship - thought it was too small for that, but a good chance of kickstarting the kind of industry you need to build one to take to Mars and back.