Timeline for Exactly why does Starship need to be this big for interplanetary travel?
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| Dec 5, 2022 at 22:40 | comment | added | John B. Lambe | @Michael TPS: Probably Thermal Protection System: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_thermal_protection_system | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 13:54 | vote | accept | Abdullah is not an Amalekite | ||
| Jan 13, 2022 at 13:53 | vote | accept | Abdullah is not an Amalekite | ||
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| Aug 22, 2021 at 2:52 | vote | accept | Abdullah is not an Amalekite | ||
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| Aug 21, 2021 at 14:02 | comment | added | Jens | "in its initial missions". It also won't carry 100 people ever to Mars. That's just another silly "Elon number". The technical reasons why this is so is explained in youtube.com/watch?v=SummGvYrHqw | |
| Aug 21, 2021 at 6:27 | comment | added | Michael | What does “TPS” stand for? | |
| Aug 21, 2021 at 0:44 | comment | added | jamesqf | @RonJohn: SpaceX may have studied it, but then Musk comes along and decides what they'll actually do. And that may be a great idea, or it may be really, really dumb. Consider Tesla: practical electric cars, great. But how much money has Tesla wasted on its "Autopilot", while opening itself up to major lawsuits? And then there's the sheer idiocy of running everything off a giant touchscreen, which insures that a lot of people (including me) will never buy a Tesla... Or consider his whole notion of colonizing Mars with current tech... | |
| Aug 21, 2021 at 0:20 | comment | added | SnakeDoc | Also, sometimes SpaceX does things just because Elon wanted it that way, or it sounded cool. See "BFR" as just one example. Elon isn't a rocket scientist, no matter what he says. | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 21:21 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | @RonJohn NASA has studied it as well, and specifically mentioned the large margins, redundancy, contingency options, etc as advantages of SpaceX's HLS proposal. If you're sensible, you don't assume everything's going to go exactly as planned. | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 21:08 | comment | added | RonJohn | @jamesqf SpaceX has studied this more than you have, and decided to build StarShip+Heavy. | |
| Aug 20, 2021 at 20:57 | comment | added | jamesqf | @RonJohn: But if you're sensible, you've already launched all the supplies you'd need on Mars, and your return vehicle(s), and know that they are waiting either on the surface, or in orbit. | |
| Aug 19, 2021 at 18:58 | comment | added | RonJohn | "along with plenty of supplies and equipment". That's the key: there's more to going to Mars than just carrying lots of people. | |
| Aug 19, 2021 at 1:15 | history | answered | Christopher James Huff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |