2024年4月1日 · We will attempt to keep this self-post current with links and major updates, but for the most part, we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss Starship development, ask Starship-specific questions, and track the progress of the production and test campaigns. Starship Development Threads are not party ...

2024年4月28日 · To be sure, Starship is contracted for a lot of things at this point: Artemis HLS, Artemis cargo lander, the NASA tipping point contract to demonstrate internal propellant transfer, dearMoon, a second lunar flyby tourism flight, Polaris 3 (and maybe 2), a commercial GTO launch, other unspecified commercial satellite launches, and the Starlab ...

2024年3月14日 · Starship’s payload bay is also about 3x larger than the Shuttle’s. The point is: if you want to take pretty pictures of Earth, then Dream Chaser or Falcon 9 will do just fine. If you want to build actual infrastructure in LEO, and get to the Moon and assemble a base there, and ultimately get to Mars, then you need a different scale of ...

The terms of NASA's Starship lander contract call for SpaceX to employ two Super Heavy boosters, four Starship tankers, one Starship depot, and one Starship lander for each Artemis launch campaign. SpaceX will also build a spare Super Heavy booster and two spare Starship tankers to support each Artemis mission, according to Watson-Morgan.

2019年1月26日 · 100 metric tonnes on Starship mk-1 vs 45 metric tonnes on new glenn. While new glenn will surpass falcon heavy in terms of both payload capacity and payload volume. It still won't live up to Starship. Hell it's not even fully reusable, the hydrolox upper stage on NG is thrown out after every flight.

Starship is a prototype and we have seen zero hardware for lunar landing, deep space operations, life support, fuel transfer or anything of the sort. Its just a hopper at this point. I think you're dismissing SLS progress and highly overestimating Starship progress in this analysis.

2021年3月26日 · Starship has many big upgrades in the pipeline the public is aware of: like vacuum Raptors, a full heatshield, new landing legs, tinner steel, a custom stainless steel alloy, payload door, etc.. SN15 does not have these yet. Plus, just because Musk put it on Twitter, doesn’t make it a reality we should accept without visible evidence.

The industry popping up around overly hyping the progress in Starship land is just very frustrating to deal through. So completely agree with OP on this. Edit: And The Angry Astronaut is downright Terrible. Definitely skip that one.

I think by then that a new awareness would have arisen. Namely, that Starship is better used as the sole means for landing humans and cargo on the lunar surface. And that could be done at ~$250M operating cost per Starship launch, which is $250 million/$4100 million = 0.061, i.e. at 6.1% of the cost of a single SLS/Orion launch.

We will attempt to keep this self-post current with links and major updates, but for the most part, we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss Starship development, ask Starship-specific questions, and track the progress of the production and test campaigns. Starship Development Threads are not party ...